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Poster for The Devil's Daughter

1939

United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Poster for the film The Devil's Daughter depicting several scenes and characters from the movie, with the movie title across the poster's center in large red letters against a white background. The top section of the poster shows a movie scene with a young woman reclining and two people standing over her. They are surrounded by tropical trees. The young woman wears a short light-colored camisole, while the person standing by her head wears a light-colored shirt and headwrap and holds a knife. The second person wears a light-colored shirt, pants, and panama hat, and holds his right fist up in a threatening manner while looking at the individual holding the knife. A woman in a red sleeveless dress, Nina Mae McKinney, stands at the edge of the scene. She holds a stall staff in her right hand and watches the scene over her left shoulder.

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Catalog reference: 2013.118.30

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