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Photo, Print, Drawing Apple Mary and Dennie. It's funny, every time a little work appears around here, all the men disappear / Martha Orr.

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Title

  • Apple Mary and Dennie. It's funny, every time a little work appears around here, all the men disappear / Martha Orr.

Summary

  • Twelve-panel comic strip shows Apple Mary looking for someone to put on her dress so she can measure the hem. After Bill (a middle-age tough-looking man) refuses, she persuades Grandpa Bramble to help out. When Bill jeers at Grandpa, the old gentleman chases him around the house until he trips over the furniture. In the last panel, Bill is shown wearing the dress while Mary pins it up. She admonishes him to stop complaining since it is his fault that Grandpa Bramble has hurt his back. Bill, enraged, insists the old man is faking. Apple Mary, drawn by Martha Orr, first appeared in October 1934. The strip was probably inspired by Frank Capra's movie, Lady for a Day, which was in turn based on the Damon Runyon short story, Madam La Gimp. Mary was a fruit peddler, striving to support her family during the depression. The strip was renamed Apple Mary and Dennie in 1938. When Mary Orr retired in 1939, the strip was reincarnated as Mary Worth's Family and finally as Mary Worth. The strip is viewed as the "mother (or grandmother) of all soap-opera strips" and is still published today.

Names

  • Orr, Martha, 1908-2001, artist

Created / Published

  • [19]38 Oct. 9.

Headings

  • -  Sewing--1930-1940

Headings

  • Comics--1930-1940.
  • Drawings--1930-1940.

Genre

  • Comics--1930-1940
  • Drawings--1930-1940

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Copyright 1938 by Publishers Syndicate.
  • -  Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
  • -  WOOD/Orr.313
  • -  Sources: Toonopedia online file; 100 years of American newspaper comics, p. 197-98; Encyclopedia of American comics, p. 252 ljr

Medium

  • 1 drawing : India ink over graphite underdrawing ; 70.2 x 54.5 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • WOOD - CS, no. 7543 [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 06584 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.06584

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003675316

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-06584 (digital file from original drawing)

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-06584 (digital file from original drawing)
  • Call Number: WOOD - CS, no. 7543 [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Orr, Martha, Artist. Apple Mary and Dennie. It's funny, every time a little work appears around here, all the men disappear / Martha Orr. , 1938. [Oct. 9] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675316/.

APA citation style:

Orr, M. (1938) Apple Mary and Dennie. It's funny, every time a little work appears around here, all the men disappear / Martha Orr. , 1938. [Oct. 9] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675316/.

MLA citation style:

Orr, Martha, Artist. Apple Mary and Dennie. It's funny, every time a little work appears around here, all the men disappear / Martha Orr. [Oct. 9] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003675316/>.