Lobby card for the film Murder with Music: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lobby card for the film Murder with Music: Date: 1941. Distributed by: Sack Amusement Enterprises, American, 1920 - 1979. Subject of: Noble Sissle, American, 1889 - 1975.
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Lobby card for the 1941 film Murder with Music. The card is yellowish-orange with black text and images. On the left side of the card is a caricature image of a man hovering over a house. Below this is a photographic image of a man slumped over a piano with numerous men and women standing around him. Small, printed text in the top left corner reads [ALFRED N. SACK Presents]. A large photographic image in the center of the card shows two women sitting at a table. Papers and a telephone are on the table. The woman on the left is wearing a uniform. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress. Printed below the picture is [MURDER WITH MUSIC / BOB HOWARD ALL-STAR COLORED CAST and NOBLE SISSLE – SKIPPY WILLIAMS / And / ORCHESTRAS]. A Sack Amusement Enterprises logo is in the bottom left corner. Printed in small text at the bottom of the card is [Distributed by SACK AMUSEMENT ENTERPRISES] and [Directed by GEORGE P. QUIGLEY]. The back of the card is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1941
- Distributed by: Sack Amusement Enterprises, American, 1920 - 1979
- Subject of: Noble Sissle, American, 1889 - 1975
- Subject of: Alfred N. Sack, American, 1898 - 1969
- Subject of: Bob Howard, American, 1906 - 1986
- Subject of: Elmer Williams, American, 1916 - 1994
- Subject of: George P. Quigley, American
- Type: lobby cards
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 14 in. (28 × 35.5 cm)
- Place used: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Advertising
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Race films
- Object number: 2019.22.18
- 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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