Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

258 c   (FILM.) Poster for the film “She’s Too Mean for Me.” Poster, 40 x 27 3 / 4 inches, in red and black; partial separations at folds. Np, [1948] [400/600] A Toddy Pictures comedy starring Mantan Moreland and “an all star colored cast.” “What is tougher than one wild woman? Mantan finds out—two!” 258 259 259 c   (FILM.) Poster for the film Up Tight. Poster, 30 x 13 1 / 4 inches, light folds, minimal wear including 1 / 2 -inch closed tear on left edge. Sydney, Australia: Robert Burton, [1968] [600/900] Poster for the Australian release of Jules Dassin’s re-make of Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Informer.” Dassin, a leftist Jewish filmmaker making his return after 20 years on the Hollywood blacklist, changed the setting from Dublin to Cleveland, tracing a group of black revolutionaries in the wake of the Martin Luther King assassination. Critic Roger Ebert said “Dassin . . . jumps into the center of a social phenomenon that has been carefully avoided by almost everybody except a few documentary filmmakers and, of course, the national magazines. The effect—on the big movie theater screen—is stunning and hair-raising.”