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Auction History Result

4j080 LIFE IS REAL 9x22 special poster 1934 Nina Mae McKinney, greatest colored show, ultra rare!

Date Sold 2/20/2018
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An Original Vintage Unfolded Special Movie Poster (measures 9 1/4" x 22" [23 x 56 cm]) (Learn More)

Kentucky Minstrels (released in the U.S. as "Life is Real"), the 1934 John Baxter English black African American musical ("Greatest colored picture in screen history!") starring Nina Mae McKinney, Debroy Somers (billed as "Debro Somers and His Band"), Harry Scott, Eddie Whaley (billed as "Scott and Whaley"), and C. Denier Warren. This was an English movie about plantation life in America's Kentucky, and it included many negative racial stereotypes, including a blackface minstrel show. However, the movie had actual black African Americans in some roles, including Nina Mae McKinney, who had achieved fame in the U.S., but she left the U.S. to go to England to make this movie (but it is unclear how big a role she had in the movie). Harry Scott and Eddie Whaley remained in England, where they joined the cast of the English radio show based on this movie, which ran all the way until 1950 (another U.S. singer/actor, Isaac Hatch, also was in the radio show). A television show based on this radio show aired from 1958 to 1978, titled "Black and White Minstrel Show".
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster is exactly like a window card from the 1930s, except that it only measures 9 1/4" x 22", rather than 14" x 22", but it is not trimmed (it was created this size). This English movie was released in the U.S. as "Life is Real", and this special poster is the only poster of any kind from this movie we have ever seen. It was used when the movie was shown at a "colored school" (we know this because that was handwritten at the top of the card, and the admission was 22 cents).

Condition: fair to good. The card has three areas of paper loss in the top text area. It has some scuffing scattered throughout, and a stain in the right of the bottom border, with enlarged nail holes in the center of the top and bottom (see our image).
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