Object Details
- Description
- A lobby card for the movie Porgy and Bess" The card features a color image of a man (Sidney Poitier) and woman (Dorothy Dandridge) singing and looking at each other. Poitier is wearing a yellow shirt and has his hands around her waist while Dandridge, wearing white, has her hands on his arms. In the background you can see a jar and some flowers. In the lower proper right corner there is a box with text that reads [SAMUEL GOLDWYN / PRESENTS / THE MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION / PORGY / and / BESS / Starring / SIDNEY POITIER.DOROTHY DANDRIDGE. SAMMY DAVIS JR. PEARL BAILEY]. Along the bottom is a copyright notice [Copyright 1959 Columbia Pictures Corp. Country of Origin U.S.A.] and a licensing notice from National Screen Service Corp. At the bottom right corner is [59/218].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Issued by
- Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., founded 1919
- Subject of
- Dorothy Dandridge, American, 1922 - 1965
- Sidney Poitier, Bahamian American, 1927 - 2022
- Date
- 1959
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- ink on poster board
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
- Type
- lobby cards
