Lobby Card for Temptation
date: label: Date
content: 1935
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: Andrew S. Bishop, American, 1894 - 1959
label: Subject of
content: Ethel Moses, American, 1904 - 1982
label: Subject of
content: Lorenzo Tucker, American, 1907 - 1986
label: Subject of
content: Vincente Minnelli, American, 1903 - 1986
notes: label: Description
content: A lobby card for the 1935 film "Temptation". In the top left corner in red text reads "Oscar Micheaux". Below that in blue it reads "Presents/ A Great colored cast in". Below the writing is a picture bordered in red. Starting to the left of the picture is a man in a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up and an unbuttoned brown vest over it with matching brown slacks. He is wearing a double colored sock tie and looking to his left. Behind him and to the right is a shorter man with a full brown suit, dark tie, and brown hat looking in the direction of the first man. To the right of the second man is a third man who is taller than the other two men depicted. He is wearing a dark blue shirt with a pocket square and a tie. He appears to be looking and pointing at the first man described. To the right of the picture bordered in red is a picture of a woman in a slightly transparent dress that reveals her shoulders and starts at her arms and chest. Her left hand is over her right breast as she looks up and to her right. Below both pictures, text outlined in green it reads "Temptation Distributed by/ Micheaux Pictures Corporation/ New York City." On the back of the lobby card, "1940" is written in red.
label: Statement
content: Objects depicting racist and/or stereotypical imagery or language may be offensive and disturbing, but the NMAAHC aims to include them in the Collection to present and preserve the historical context in which they were created and used. Objects of this type provide an important historical record from which to study and evaluate racism.
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: Advertising
label: Topic
content: Entertainers
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Race films
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Sexuality
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: A Cinema Apart: The Larry Richards Collection of Early Black Film
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: 2013.118.143.1
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: 10 11/16 × 14 in. (27.2 × 35.5 cm)