Maid with Movie Magazine by Norman Rockwell

November 4, 1922 Issue of The Saturday Evening Post

Maid with Movie Magazine, this Norman Rockwell painting, appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post published November 4, 1922...
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The alternate title for this painting is Cinderella.

This painting was Rockwell's fifty-second overall picture featured on the cover of The Post and the ninth Rockwell cover in 1922. The Post featured a Rockwell illustration on its cover ten times in 1922.

Maid with Movie Magazine

With this painting, Norman Rockwell shows us an interlude in the workday of this maid.

She is just taking a short break in her workday. She is relaxing momentarily with a movie magazine.

The article she is reading sports the headline "Stars of the Screen." I do not recognize the star depicted in the magazine, but he was no doubt a heartthrob.

The dreamy look on her face suggests that she is imagining herself with the screen star. Whether they are dancing or just engaging in witty conversation, she is enjoying her daydream.

The maid, with paper curlers in her hair, wears an apron over her dress to keep it clean. She wears slippers on her feet.

She has been taking a momentary break so long that the kittens have started playing with he broom. Let's hope she breaks her reverie before she gets cobwebs...
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