Vintage Mid Century Cowgirl Vampire Slayer Print - Circa 1940 - Teenage Jane Withers as the cowgirl version of The FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS

Vintage Mid Century Cowgirl Vampire Slayer Print - Circa 1940 - Teenage Jane Withers as the cowgirl version of The FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS

$40.00 Sale

Treasures from the Film & Theatre Collection at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 18, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Jane Withers is certainly a fascinating character. One of the biggest and most enduring child stars of the 1930s and 40s, she was one of Hollywood's top 10 box office draws in both 1937 and 1938. An amazing bookend to her time as an actress in film was landing one of the major support roles in George Stevens' timeless classic GIANT, 1956, where she became good friends with James Dean up until the time of his death,

Much in demand as a character actress in early and mid 60s television, it was her role as the commercial pitchwoman Josephine the Plumber, lasting nearly a decade, that placed her once again as an ubiquitous presence in American popular culture.

This image comes from an ice cream cup premium. Save ten lids and trade them in for this spectacularly oversaturated color fan pic. It originally had a border with holes to go into a binder with other heavily colorized stars of the day.

This print stands on its own, visually, as do all our prints, but I have had some fun trying to envision the kind of environments it might end up in. Perhaps a great present for someone who has lots of monochromatic vampire decorations. This'll radically brighten up such a space, yet fit right in with a wry promise to set ol' Dracula free just as soon as she's done whittlin'...

That said, far be it from me to pigeonhole a place for Jane and her enthusiastic stake carving. It is so genuinely joyful, as Jane herself always seemed to be, that it really works in a thousand different settings.

Enjoy!

 

  • Handmade item
  • Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
  • Made to order
  • Only ships within United States.

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