[FILM]. A group of 2 posters promoting race films, incl. Murder Rap and The Girl in Room 20. Ca 1940s.
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022
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Live / Cincinnati
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[FILM]. A group of 2 posters promoting race films, incl. Murder Rap and The Girl in Room 20. Ca 1940s.
Murder Rap. Cleveland, OH: Morgan Litho. Co., ca 1942. 25 x 41 in. poster mounted on linen (left and right sides trimmed, repaired tear along left edge near center, minor chipping, fold lines). Provenance: Beverly and Larry Richards Collection (per consignor). Murder Rap, also known as Take My Life, featured a group of young actors billed as the "Harlem Dead End Kids," who join the US Army in the film.
[With:] The Girl in Room 20. [Astor Pictures], ca 1946-1949. 28 x 42 in. poster (creasing and small tears at folds, soil along top edge line, minor chipping). The film tells the tale of singer Daisy Mae Walker, a country girl who travels to New York City and becomes the target of an unscrupulous night club owner.
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