301
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(FILM.)
Keep Punching, starring Willie Bryant and Mae Johnson.
Complete set of eight lobby cards.
Np: Amusement Enterprises, 1939
[1,000/1,500]
“
Henry Johnson, the only pugilist ever to hold three championship titles (lightweight, feather-
weight and welterweight) was a natural box-office attraction in this black cast sports melodrama.
Co-starring Canada Lee, who actually did some professional boxing before his acting career,
and Francine Everett” (Kisch and Mapp, Separate Cinema, p. 60).
299
300
301
299
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(FILM.) CRIME DRAMA.
Gang
Smashers with Nina Mae McKinney, an All
Colored Cast.
Full sheet poster 40 x 26
1
⁄
4
inches, linen-backed.
Np:Million Dollar Pictures,1938
[1,500/2,500]
One of the more successful all-black vehicles for
superstar Nina Mae McKinney. McKinney, a
super talented great beauty, was able to break out of
the black film stereotype, but not here in the United
States and unfortunately not to any great degree.
300
●
(FILM.) CRIME DRAMA.
Policy
Man.
Full sheet color poster, 41 x 27
inches; creases where folded; one tiny hole at
the conjunction of folds.
Sack, Cleveland, Ohio, 1938
[2,000/3,000]
A sensational crime film with an all black cast,
with musical numbers from Sack Entertainment,
the Count Basie Orchestra, and the N.Y.
Plantation Club Chorus, et al. Separate Cinema,
page 139.
