Object Details
- producer
- Sidney, George
- Howard, Noel
- Description (Brief)
- Oil painting on poster board by Noel Howard depicting the stage set from the motion picture The Three Musketeers. Directed by George Sidney, this 1948 action film was a cinematic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s famous novel by the same name. The painting features scenes from the stage set, including: a street scene with filmmakers by a stone-lined pool on the edge of a forest; the Three Musketeers (in center); a member of the light crew holding a light meter; crossed swords and fishing rods beneath a microphone; Gene Kelly in water; George Sidney with his hands framing the swashbuckling scene; an overturned boat with life preserver labeled “S.S. MGM”; camera crew on boom; klieg lights. It is signed “Noel Howard ’48.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Corinne Entratter Sidney
- 1948
- ID Number
- 2004.0166.04
- accession number
- 2004.0166
- catalog number
- 2004.0166.04
- Object Name
- Painting
- Physical Description
- oil paint (overall material)
- posterboard (overall material)
- adhesive tape (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 28 in; 55.88 cm x 71.12 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Culver City
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Movie Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Motion Pictures
- Record ID
- nmah_1276339
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-7318-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
