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) dancing with her right arm raised toward her head. She is wearing a dark red dress with a sheer black overlay that ties at a small bow at her neck. There are yellow embroidered flowers on the overlay. There are men and women smiling and dancing behind her. A woman in a bright yellow dress is dancing with a man in a tux in the background. 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: Unidentified
• Subject of: Edna Mae Harris, American, 1910 - 1997
• Subject of: Oscar Micheaux, American, 1884 - 1951
• 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: 2011.160.3
• 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: Public Domain - film in public domain, materials as well Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.