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(FILM.) LOUISE BEAVERS.
Prison Bait.
Full sheet poster, 27 x 441
inches, archival paper backed; creases
where folded; some light wear to the
blank top edge.
Np, Harry Popkin, 1939
[600/800]
Prison Bait was the all black cast answer to the
successful white crime series that starred Leo
Gorsey, Huntz Hall and the East Side Kids.
Here we have Louise Beavers as the kindly
warden of a reform school, and Harlem’s “Tuff
Kids.” “A Million Dollar Picture” according to
the poster. “Gone With the Wind,” the same
year was touted as the “Million Dollar
Movie.”
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(FILM.) TODDY FILMS.
Gun
Moll.
Poster, 41 x 28 inches; creases
where folded; one small hole at the con-
junction of the folds.
New York, [1938]
[600/800]
A lurid film starring Nina Mae McKinney.
(1912 - 1967) a talented and beautiful
African American actress who got her start on
Broadway . MGM as a result signed her to
what seemed to be a great five year contract.
However McKinney was kept to character roles.
She finally broke the contract after MGM cut
most of her scenes from a film, and left the
United States. Abroad she was accepted and
dubbed “The Black Garbo.” McKinney was
one of the first African-American film stars to
work on BBC television.
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