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Auction History Result 6b470 LOUIS JORDAN 1sh '46 playing Hepcat Serenade with Broadway's brightest colored stars, rare! Date Sold 4/5/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Louis Jordan was an black African American musician, songwriter, and bandleader from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was known as the King of the Jukebox and was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. Some of his works include: Caldonia, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby, and Ration Blues, He passed away in 1975 at the age of 66. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a fascinating poster! Alfred N. Sack of Sack Amusement Enterprises was a producer of all-black films in the 1930s and 1940s. We know that Louis Jordan starred in a bunch of "soundies" (the forerunner of today's music videos, which played on video juke boxes in the 1940s), and this poster makes it likely that Sack showed some of them in theaters as shorts! Aside from this poster, which we have never seen before, we have also seen a very similar one-sheet which is identical except for a different title ("Rocco Blues", instead of "Hepcat Serenade"), which tells us that this is a "stock" one-sheet that was printed for multiple shorts, with different titles for when theaters showed the different shorts. We found on the Internet that "Hepcat Serenade" was shown in 1946, and since William Forrest Crouch is credited as the director, it appears that he made these shorts with Louis Jordan in 1946 and then made the feature film "Reet, Petite and Gone" with him the following year in 1947. If anyone knows more about this (or has ever seen another poster, other than the two we describe here), please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: poor to fair. Unfortunately, the poster has paper loss that completely includes one of Jordan's eyes at top center. There is also paper loss in the left and right borders, and the poster is fragile. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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