Lobby card for Lilies of the Field: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lobby card for Lilies of the Field: Date: 1963. Created by: United Artists Corporation, founded 1919. Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white lobby card for the film Lilies of the Field. The lobby card features a scene from the movie of Sidney Poitier holding a record and being shushed by a table of nuns. Along the bottom is a banner of red with [Sidney Poitier AS THE FANTASTIC HOMER IN RALPH NELSON'S Lilies of the Field] in black and white text. Along the bottom edge of the card is a copyright notice [Copyright 1963-United Artists Corporation.] on the left and a licensing notice by National Screen Service Corp. on the right.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1963
- Created by: United Artists Corporation, founded 1919
- Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000
- Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
- Subject of: Lilia Skala, 1896 - 1994
- Type: posters
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Film
- Object number: 2012.152.1279
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dow B. Ellis
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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