Lobby card for Lying Lips
date: label: Date
content: 1939
name: label: Distributed by
content: Micheaux Film and Book Company, American, 1918 - 1940
label: Directed by
content: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
label: Subject of
content: Edna Mae Harris, American, 1910 - 1997
label: Subject of
content: Robert Earl Jones, American, 1910 - 2006
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
notes: label: Description
content: Lobby card for Lying Lips.
label: Description
content: This lobby card for Lying Lips depicts a color scene from the film. There are four people in the image, three men and one woman. There is a man sitting at a large wooden desk on the proper right side of the image. He is wearing a dark blue long sleeve shirt. His arms are resting in front of him on top of some piles of paper. There is a lamp on the proper left corner of the desk. Edna Mae Harris is standing in front of the desk, facing the sitting man. She is wearing a burgundy brimmed hat, a red and tan plaid coat, and a green shirt or dress with a bow at the neck. Her proper right hand is resting on the desk. There is a man standing to her proper right side. He is standing in front of a door and is wearing a navy and gold uniform shirt and hat. He is looking at Harris. There is a man standing behind Harris. He is wearing a white collared shirt, a dark brown brimmed hat, vest, and suit jacket, a red necktie, and a white pocket square. His proper right hand is resting on the desk next to Harris’s hand and his proper left arm is bent. There is blue and red text on a yellow background in the top proper right corner of the image. It reads [OSCAR MICHEAUX / presents / LYING LIPS]. In the bottom proper left corner there is blue and green text which reads "WITH / EDNA MAE HARRIS / The Personality Girl / And an All Star/ COLORED CAST / Printed in U.S.A.]. There is blue text on the bottom proper right side in the border which reads [Copyright MICHEAUX PICTURES CORP. New York]. There is a red trim around the image, which is abstract in shape. There is a border around the image and the text. There are some small tears and scuff marks in the border.
label: Description
content: The back of the lobby card is blank with some small scuff marks.
label: Transcription Center Status
content: Transcribed by digital volunteers
place: label: Place used
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Independent films
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Race films
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.118.124
objectType: label: Type
content: lobby cards
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (28 × 35.6 cm)