Film poster for Sister Act: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A theatrical release poster for the feature film "Sister Act." The recto of the poster features Whoopi Goldberg wearing a black nun's habit with a black and white wimple, red high heels and round sunglasses. She is standing second in a line of seven nuns in all white habits and black shoes, standing with their backs to the camera. Goldberg faces the camera and is leaning her proper left elbow on the on the proper left shoulder of the nun in the foreground. Goldberg's proper right hand rests on her proper right hip. She looks at the camera over the top of her sunglasses. Goldberg is standing with her proper left foot crossed in front of her proper right foot. At the top of poster in gray, bold text is Goldberg's name [WHOOPI]. In the lower half on the left side in black and red text is the film's tag line and title [No Sex. / No Booze. / No Men. / No Way. / SISTER / ACT]. At the bottom of the poster in dark gray text is the billing block. The verso of the poster is the mirror image of the recto.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1992
• Issued by: Touchstone Pictures, American, founded 1984
• Subject of: Whoopi Goldberg, American, born 1955
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 39 15/16 × 27 1/16 in. (101.4 × 68.7 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Comedy
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Religion
• Object number: 2015.64.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kathleen M. Kendrick
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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