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Auction History Result 1e132 RUBY KEELER Dixie ice cream premium '30s painting with pallette with biography on back! Date Sold 3/31/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Dixie Ice Cream Premium Still (8x10; measures 9" x 11" [23 x 28 cm]) (Learn More) Ruby Keeler was an actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. She was born Ethel Ruby Keeler in Canada in 1909, but her family moved to New York City when she was three. She took dance lessons at an early age, and when she was 14 she got a job in a Broadway show (lying about her age!), In 1927 she co-starred in The Sidewalks of New York where she was seen by Flo Ziegfeld, who hired her. The following year, while still a teenager, she married the 23 year older Al Jolson, and their marriage was partially the basis for the several versions of "A Star is Born" and "The Jolson Story" (but Keeler refused to allow the producers to use her name). In 1933 she co-starred in Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street, followed quickly by Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and Dames and in 1935 she co-starred with her husband in Go Into Your Dance. They divorced in 1940, and she married a businessman and retired, having four children. In 1971 she returned to star in the Broadway revival of the 1920s musical No, No, Nanette. She passed away in 1993 at the age of 83. Important Added Info: Note that this is a special color 9" x 11" item that was given away as a premium from the Dixie Cup company. The Dixie Cup company created a large number of such premiums, which were given away to kids who sent in Dixie Cup lids. Each premium would have a full-color image of the star on the front, and on the back was biographical information of that star, along with black & white scenes from some of their movies. Every Dixie Cup premium would have two punch holes in one border, and kids would be sent two "covers" (one front and one back) to create a "scrapbook" (the covers gave the instructions on how to make the scrapbook by binding the Dixie Cup premiums between the two covers "with color cord, shoe string, or ribbon". Note that these were first made in the mid-1930s, and they continued all the way to the early 1950s (when the two holes switched to the top of the premium). Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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