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(FILM.) MORELAND, MANTAN.
Return of Mandy’s Husband.
Group of
six half-tone lobby cards. 11x14 inches; some small stains here and there.
CONDITION
VARIES
,
SHOULD BE SEEN
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[Florida:Toddy Films, 1948]
[700/1,000]
One of a series of Toddy Films’ comedies featuring Mantan Moreland, one of a handful of
black actors who got work in white as well as black films during the 1940s and 1950s.
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(FILM.) NORMAN STUDIOS.
Black Gold.
Poster, 22x14 inches.With
two pictorial promotional distributors
brochures, folio’s folded to form four
pages each.All in exceptional condition.
Jacksonville, FL, 1928
[800/1,200]
A fine, and typically lurid poster for Norman
Studios’ “Black Gold,” a story about the oil
fields of Oklahoma reprising the duo of
Lawrence Criner and Katherine Boyd who
had been a success in “Flying Ace” (1926).
Norman Studios was one of the most prolific
producers of all-black cast films for a number
of years. The brochures carry advertisements
for Bill Pickett’s “Bull Dogger” and other
important black-cast films. See John Kisch
and Edward Mapp’s “Separate Cinema”
(Noonday Press, 1992).
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