Film still for Cabin in the Sky: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A movie still for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky. The photo is in black and white. Starting to the left of the photo is a woman with a large light-colored flower pinned to the front right side of her hair. She is facing forward but her eyes are in the direction of a man to her left. She is wearing a light top with polka dots, hoop earrings, and bracelets on her right forearm. The man to the right of her is wearing a long sleeve collared shirt with the top button unbuttoned and is looking away from the woman. In the bottom right hand corner of the photograph reads the numbers “1267-70."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1943
• Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., founded 1924
• Subject of: Lena Horne, American, 1917 - 2010
• Subject of: Eddie Anderson, American, 1905 - 1977
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: film stills
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 7 3/8 × 9 9/16 in. (18.7 × 24.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.1 × 25.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Race films
• Topic: Segregation
• Object number: 2013.118.160.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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