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Auction History Result 2b047 LIFE IS REAL 9x22 special poster 1934 Nina Mae McKinney, greatest colored show, very rare! Date Sold 12/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Special Movie Poster (measures 9 1/4" x 22" [23 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Kentucky Minstrels (released in the U.S. as "Life is Real"), the 1934 John Baxter English black African American musical ("Greatest colored picture in screen history!") starring Nina Mae McKinney, Debroy Somers (billed as "Debro Somers and His Band"), Harry Scott, Eddie Whaley (billed as "Scott and Whaley"), and C. Denier Warren. This was an English movie about plantation life in America's Kentucky, and it included many negative racial stereotypes, including a blackface minstrel show. However, the movie had actual black African Americans in some roles, including Nina Mae McKinney, who had achieved fame in the U.S., but she left the U.S. to go to England to make this movie (but it is unclear how big a role she had in the movie). Harry Scott and Eddie Whaley remained in England, where they joined the cast of the English radio show based on this movie, which ran all the way until 1950 (another U.S. singer/actor, Isaac Hatch, also was in the radio show). A television show based on this radio show aired from 1958 to 1978, titled "Black and White Minstrel Show". If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this poster, and that one was in much lesser condition, and it still sold for $129 (and this card is in far better condition)! Also note that this poster is exactly like a window card from the 1930s, except that it only measures 9 1/4" x 22", rather than 14" x 22", but it is not trimmed (it was created this size). It is basically a cross between a regular window card and a mini window card! This English movie was released in the U.S. as "Life is Real", and this special poster is the only poster of any kind from this movie we have ever seen. It was used when the movie was shown at a "colored school" (we know this because the other example we auctioned had that handwritten at the top of the card, and the admission was 22 cents). Condition: very good. The poster has slight darkening and slight discoloration around the edges, but is otherwise in really nice condition. Note that there is unevenness to the printing of the image, including in the face of the girl at top left, but this is in the printing, and it was also in the only other example of this poster we auctioned, so it is surely how they were all printed. Learn More about condition grades 
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