Lobby card for Lying Lips: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A lobby card for the movie "Lying Lips". The card is comprised of an image of a woman (Edna Mae Harris) wearing a red hat, red and white checkered jacket, and green top and standing in front of a high desk or bench presumably at a courthouse or police station. Behind her is a man (Robert Earl Jones) in a brown suit with a red tie and a hat. Next to them is a man dressed as a police officer and sitting on the other side of the desk is a man in a blue uniform. The man sitting behind the desk is writing in a book. In the background a door is visible. In the upper proper right corner is text that reads [OSCAR MICHEAUX/ presents/ LYING LIPS]. In the lower proper left corner there is a box with text that reads [EDNA MAE HARRIS/ The Personality Girl/ And an All Star/ COLORED CAST].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1939
• Created by: Micheaux Film and Book Company, American, 1918 - 1940
• Subject of: Edna Mae Harris, American, 1910 - 1997
• Subject of: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Race films
• Object number: 2011.160.1
• 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

Sources and reuse

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: Public Domain - film in public domain, materials as well Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.