eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9e133 WAY DOWN SOUTH WC '39 Bobby Breen in Louisiana, written by Clarence Muse & Langston Hughes! Date Sold 12/31/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Way Down South, the 1939 Bernard Vorhaus Louisiana juvenile musical ("Sugar cane is in!... Moon a-shinin'!... Dusky Dixie's dancing to voodoo drums! Rascallions... Plantation flirtations... New Orleans brawling, loving laughing! Here's the warmest, deepest heart show about the happiest land a-livin'!"; "Screen Play by Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes"; "It's heaven down in Dixie! Music's everywhere! Happiness is here! Flirtations.. rascallions.. minstrels.. voodoo dances.. and a heart-winning youngster fighting, scheming, to save a plantation paradise!.. You'll love its every glowing moment!.." about a young boy in post-Civil War Louisiana whose inheritance is threatened by a crooked lawyer, and he is helped to claim it by several kindly black and Cajun people) starring Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Clarence Muse, Steffi Duna, Sally Blaine, Hall Johnson Choir, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, and Willie Best. Note that this movie was co-written by Clarence Muse (one of the early black African American stars who pushed for better roles for blacks in movies), and by Langston Hughes (the famous African American poet), and yet the movie, as viewed on the screen, does very little to change the stereotype of black people at that time, portraying them as happy with the little they are given (one wonders if the studio did not make major changes in their script for the sake of 1930s "political correctness"!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades
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