Window card for One Mile from Heaven: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The card has a cream background. There is a black stamp at the top of the lobby card which reads [PENN - LAKE THEATRE / Sandy Lake / THU DEC 9]. At center is the title of the movie is in large blue text [ONE MILE / FROM HEAVEN]. There are two color film stills below it. On the left is a round-cropped image of three women in hats and a young girl with curly hair and a bow, all looking towards the right where there is an image of a man in a suit sitting at a table. This image, and the red text below it, are tilted at an angle. The text reads [WITH / CLAIRE / TREVOR / SALLY BLANE / DOUGLAS FOWLEY / FREDI WASHINGTON / AND / BILL ROBINSON]. At the bottom left is a blue box with white text which reads [THE STRANG- / EST CASE THAT / EVER SHOCKED / A HALL OF / JUSICE!]. There is a red 20th century Fox logo in the bottom right corner. There is small blue text along the bottom is the copyright information, [Copyright MCMXXXVII Twentieth Century - Fox Film Corp.], followed by other restriction information. The back of the card is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1937
• Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, American, founded 1935
• Subject of: Claire Trevor, American, 1910 - 2000
• Subject of: Sally Blane, American, 1910 - 1997
• Subject of: Douglas Fowley, American, 1911 - 1998
• Subject of: Fredi Washington, American, 1903 - 1994
• Subject of: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American, 1878 - 1949
• Subject of: Sol M. Wurtzel, American, 1890 - 1958
• Subject of: Allan Dwan, Canadian American, 1885 - 1981
• Type: window cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 22 1/8 × 14 1/8 in. (56.2 × 35.9 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Topic: Motherhood
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
• Object number: 2013.118.150
• 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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