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Our luxuriously soft beach towels are made from brushed microfiber with a 100% cotton back for extra absorption. The top of the towel has the image printed on it, and the back is white cotton. Our beach towels are available in two different sizes: beach towel (32" x 64") and beach sheet (37" x 74").
Don't let the fancy name confuse you... a beach sheet is just a large beach towel.
Design Details
This is an exceedingly rare image from 1936's The Gay Desperado set in front of San Xavier Mission in Tucson, Arizona. The structure on the far right... more
Care Instructions
Machine wash cold and tumble dry with low heat.
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1 - 2 business days
Average Rating (4.04 Stars):
Leesa Odom
April 16th, 2024
I bought this for my grandson. He fell in love with it. He even slept with it. It is a super good quality. Very impressed with image on the towel.
Kenneth Figueroa
April 13th, 2024
So it’s a gift for my dad and haven’t gave it to him yet but we FaceTime and he loved it … I was so worried about ordering here cuz never heard of the company but I’m so glad I did and it came out perfect perfect perfect.
Michele Long
April 13th, 2024
Super happy how print came out, but looks a little less vibrant even after just a cool water quick wash. Still nice looking, but would have preferred the vibrancy to have remained.
Michele Long
April 13th, 2024
Came out really nice! Laundered pretty well too!
Tracey McGraw
April 9th, 2024
Love it. I can't wait to take it on hoilday
Josephine Raimondi
April 2nd, 2024
Did not like the materal
This is an exceedingly rare image from 1936's "The Gay Desperado" set in front of San Xavier Mission in Tucson, Arizona. The structure on the far right of the frame was created for the film.
"Desperado" was directed by Rouben Mamoulian (1898-1987), an important innovator in the early days of the "talkies." He ended his days in poverty after having been fired from "Porgy and Bess" and "Cleopatra." Mamoulian did direct Fred Astaire in "Silk Stockings." The 1957 musical was the last production in which Astaire danced as a leading man, who ended up with the girl.
"The Gay Desperado" was produced by Mary Pickford, a few years after her retirement from the screen. Historians claim she was the most popular actress ever to grace movies. There is no record of Pickford ever having visited the Tucson set, or when it was world premiered at the Fox Tucson.
"Adding sound to motion pictures would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."...Mary Pickford (1892-1979)
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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