Film still for Cabin in the Sky
Object Details
- Distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., founded 1924
- Subject of
- Lena Horne, American, 1917 - 2010
- Eddie Anderson, American, 1905 - 1977
- Description
- A movie still for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky. The photo is in black and white. Starting to the left of the photo is a woman with a large light-colored flower pinned to the front right side of her hair. She is facing forward but her eyes are in the direction of a man to her left. She is wearing a light top with polka dots, hoop earrings, and bracelets on her right forearm. The man to the right of her is wearing a long sleeve collared shirt with the top button unbuttoned and is looking away from the woman. In the bottom right hand corner of the photograph reads the numbers “1267-70."
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1943
- Object number
- 2013.118.160.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- film stills
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 7 3/8 × 9 9/16 in. (18.7 × 24.3 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.1 × 25.6 cm)
- Place used
- United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Collection title
- A Cinema Apart: The Larry Richards Collection of Early Black Film
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Photographs and Still Images
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Actors
- Film
- Hollywood (Film)
- Race films
- Segregation
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2013.118.160.5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5b747d91f-f855-4bf2-96b8-4ae11d2c74f4
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