Window card for Bargain with Bullets: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A window card for the film Bargain with Bullets. The card has a dark red background and features a shield-shaped black and white movie still depicting Ralph Cooper at a coat rack in the center. Cooper wears a hat and trench coat and is reaching for a coat hanger while turning to look over his shoulder towards the camera. At the top in black text is [HARRY M. POPKIN presents...]. Above and below the image are black banners with large white text reading [RALPH COOPER] and ["BARGAIN with BULLETS"]. On the left side of the image is a figure of a man being shot with [Directed by / HARRY FRASER]. On the right side of the image is a figure of a kneeling man shooting a gun with [Screen Play by / PHIL DUNHAM]. At bottom center is [A / MILLION / DOLLAR / Production] and at bottom right is [Frances TURHAM / and / Les Hite's Cotton Club ORCHESTRA].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1937
• Created by: Million Dollar Productions, American, 1937 - 1940
• Subject of: Harry M. Popkin, American, 1906 - 1991
• Subject of: Ralph Cooper, American, 1908 - 1992
• Subject of: Harry L. Fraser, American, 1889 - 1974
• Subject of: Phil Dunham, English, 1885 - 1972
• Subject of: Frances Turham
• Subject of: Les Hite, American, 1903 - 1962
• Type: window cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 21 3/4 × 14 in. (55.2 × 35.6 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Race films
• Object number: 2013.118.146
• 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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