Lobby card for Tamango: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This lobby card for Tamango depicts three people, two men and one woman on the deck of a ship. The first man is shirtless and shackled by his wrists to the deck. The woman is pouring something in his mouth from a bowl. The woman is wearing gold jewelry and a red head wrap matching her red dress. The third man is standing behind the woman dressed in a white shirt and light-colored slacks as he looks at the first man and woman depicted. A smaller inset white square in the lower right corner has a line drawing of a woman struggling in a man's arms. Black, red and blue text reads "Dorothy/ Dandridge Curt/ Jürgen’s/ The story they said/ could never be filmed! / Tamango."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1958
• Distributed by: Vitalite Films
• Subject of: Alex Cressan
• Subject of: Dorothy Dandridge, American, 1922 - 1965
• Subject of: Curt Jurgens, Austrian, 1915 - 1982
• Type: lobby cards
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 15/16 × 13 1/16 in. (25.3 × 33.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.7 × 35.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Independent films
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: Trans-Atlantic slave trade
• Object number: 2013.118.142.7
• 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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