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Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain.

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Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards

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A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court

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Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain.

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Title
Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain.
Names
Fox Film Corporation (Distributor)
Fox, William, 1879-1952 (Producer)
Flynn, Emmett, 1892-1937 (Director)
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (Author)
Collection

Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards

A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1921
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-LC A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court, 1921
Topics
Advertising -- Motion pictures
Clary, Charles
Film adaptations
Mong, William V., 1875-1940
Motion pictures -- United States -- 1921-1930
Myers, Harry, 1886-1938
Siegmann, George
Silent films -- United States
Starke, Pauline, 1901-1977
Theby, Rosemary
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Film and video adaptations
Genres
Lobby cards
Advertisements
Notes
Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: Cast included Harry C. Myers, as the Yankee, Pauline Starke, Charles Clary, Rosemary Theby, William V. Mong, and George Siegmann; directed by Emmett J. Flynn.
Content: Edges torn.
Content: Fox Entertainments--Imprinted on cards.
Content: Posters & lobby cards
Content: Advertising cards for the producer William Fox's silent film treatment of Mark Twain's story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Cameo photographs of Mark Twain, Harry C. Myers, and other film cast members, and Twain and Myers set into a photograph of a movie set showing a castle with a drawbridge and decorated tents and viewing stands surrounding a jousting field.
Content: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG98-F817
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14326413
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d042e030-c6cb-012f-6774-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1921: Issued
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1921. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4081-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 28, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4081-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1921). Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-4081-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Movie set: castle with drawbridge, decorated tents, and viewing stands surround a jousting field; inset portraits of Harry Myers and Mark Twain.