Lobby card for Gun Moll aka Gun Smashers: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A lobby card for the movie "Gun Moll". The card is comprised of a black-and-white image of four men standing around a desk in an office talking. Three of the men are wearing suits and hats and one man is wearing a tux. The man in the tux has his thumb extended and wide eyes and he is looking at the man opposite him who has his arm extended at his side and his palm facing up. On the desk are telephones, papers and pens. In the background another desk is visible as our curtains and blinds on a window. In the lower proper left corner there is text that reads ["GUN MOLL"/ FORMERLY RELEASED UNDER THE TITLE OF "GANG SMASHERS"/ WITH NINA MAE/ MCKINNEY/ DISTRIBUTED BY TODDY PICTURES].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1944
• Subject of: Nina Mae McKinney, American, 1912 - 1967
• Created by: Toddy Pictures Company, American, 1941 - 1970s
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Race films
• Object number: 2011.160.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of David A. Lowrance
• 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 displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: No Known Copyright Restrictions Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.