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Auction History Result 3z0261 LIFE IS REAL English 7.75x9.75 still 1934 about black plantation life, Kentucky Minstrels! Date Sold 4/2/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" [20 x 25 cm] English Movie Still (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". Important Added Info: Note that this is the first English item from this movie we have auctioned, and it has the English title, which makes it a "country of origin" still for this English movie. We previously auctioned an odd sized U.S. special window card-like poster that measured 9 1/4" x 22", and had the title as "Life is Real", and had Nina Mae McKinney top billed. That makes us wonder if it might not have been released in the late 1930s or early 1940s, when McKinney had become well known in the U.S. However, so much is unknown about this that we will leave the special window card-like poster as being from 1934 until we learn more. But there is no doubt at all that this still is from the 1934 first release of this movie. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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