"Life is Real." Lobby card printed in black on yellow background with photographic inset scene of Nina McKinney. 22 x 9.25 inches. Foster, Indiana, circa 1930s E300/400 An unusual show for this period, billed as "The Greatest Black and White Show

"Life is Real." Lobby card printed in black on yellow background with photographic inset scene of Nina McKinney. 22 x 9.25 inches. Foster, Indiana, circa 1930s E300/400 An unusual show for this period, billed as "The Greatest Black and White Show ever Produced." It included a black-face minstrel show, and large banjo band with the film. McKinney was prominent in black films and later in mixed-cast films. She got her first break in Hollywood when MGM produced Hallelujah, with McKinney as a co-star in 1921.