Poster for To Sir, with Love: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A poster for the film To Sir, With Love. The poster features a color image of Sidney Poitier against a white background. The tagline is printed at the top in blue ink, reading [A STORY AS FRESH AS THE / GIRLS IN THEIR MINIS… / AND AS COOL AS THEIR / TEACHER HAD TO BE!]. Poitier is wearing a dark suit and images of other actors from the film appearing across the front of his suit. He is leaning over with his hands appearing to rest on top of a blue rectangle with the title and billing information printed inside in white and yellow. A copyright notice is printed at the very bottom left corner: [1967 Columbia Pictures].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1967
• Created by: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
• Distributed by: National Screen Service, American, 1920 - 2000
• Subject of: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
• Subject of: Christian Roberts, English
• Subject of: Judy Geeson, English, founded 1948
• Subject of: Suzy Kendall, British, born 1944
• Subject of: Lulu, Scottish, born 1948
• Subject of: James Clavell, American, 1924 - 1994
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 36 x 14 in. (91.4 x 35.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: East End, London, England, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Youth
• Object number: 2012.152.26
• 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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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1967 Columbia Pictures Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.