{"product_id":"vintage-1950s-audrey-hepburn-pocket-mirror-made-in-japan","title":"Vintage 1950s Pocket Mirror 💄 Audrey Hepburn Pin-Up NOS Made in Japan Dime-Store Collectible","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOU26NkQFI0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize: 2 inches ~\u003c\/strong\u003e The mirror backs show a bit of the scattered speckling old mirror glass gets over the decades. They vary a little one to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e💄 Audrey Hepburn\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer name isn't printed anywhere on it, but that's Audrey Hepburn - the dark upswept hair, the heavy brows, the wide dark eyes and that half-smile are hers, in the look she wore in the late 1950s. She's painted in color on a red ground, in a pale blue-grey top with a dark necklace, inside a round hot-pink plastic rim, and \"JAPAN\" is stamped in ink - not printed - low across her neck and shoulder, a little crooked, the way a hand stamp runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🎬 Roman Holiday in Tokyo\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoman Holiday opened at Tokyo's Hibiya theatre on April 19, 1954, and ran five weeks there - the film that made her a star in Japan almost overnight. The producer Masaichi Nakata said a few months later that her pictures \"had captured Japan,\" and that Tokyo girls were cutting their hair to match hers; beauty-shop owners in Kyushu are even said to have held a temple ceremony asking forgiveness for the \"Audrey Hepburn mania\" sweeping their trade. A Japanese novelty maker stamping her face onto a little purse mirror fits that moment exactly - it's her sudden fame in Japan, not the plain JAPAN stamp by itself, that puts this piece at 1954 or after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e💍 A Dime-Store Face\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis same red-ground, pink-rimmed design went out with more than one actress's face on it - other leading ladies of the day turn up in the same style and size. These were cheap novelty mirrors, sold at drugstore and five-and-dime counters. Collector lore holds they also turned up as carnival and gumball-machine prizes, passed around as much as they were ever bought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🪞 A Hard One to Find\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don't see this particular portrait turn up often - it's a hard one to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1950s-collectible-shirley-jones-pocket-mirror-hollywood-memorabilia\"\u003eVintage 1950s Shirley Jones 🎬 Pin Up Pocket Mirror Made in Japan Hollywood Red Rim Dime-Store Lithograph Collectible\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1940s-trio-ette-double-mirror-compact-case-original-makeup-applicators\"\u003eVintage 1940s-1950s Trio-Ette Red Plastic Vanity Compact 🌹 Molded Rose Double Mirror Case\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40769784414373,"sku":"VAG-7034833928357","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.3264067224_iaek.jpg?v=1785354461","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1950s-audrey-hepburn-pocket-mirror-made-in-japan","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}