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Oscar Micheaux (screenwriter, director) THE BETRAYAL [1948] One sheet poster

[New York]: Astor Pictures, [1948]. Vintage original 41 x 27″ (104 x 69 cm) one sheet poster. Folded (as issued) and unrestored, shows signs of minor wear including light crossfold separation, corner creases and horizontal crease with some wear along upper edge. Overall near fine.

Oscar Micheaux can be legitimately considered the godfather of African American film. His astonishing career encompassed forty-three films which he created in a time span of four decades. The Betrayal was his last film, an epic with a running time of about three hours. Sadly, as with so many of Micheaux’s other films, The Betrayal is entirely a lost film. This is a genuinely scarce poster.

Oscar Micheaux’s THE BETRAYAL (1948) Photo

The Betrayal. [New York: Astor Pictures], 1948. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white print still photo. Date stamp and newspaper clipping on verso, near fine.

A very scarce portrait of the three actors (Harris Gaines, Verlie Cowan and Yvonne Machen) from Oscar Micheaux‘s epic final feature film which, sadly, is now lost.

WHAT GOES UP (1939) Three sheet poster

[New York]: Sepia Art Pictures, [1939]. Vintage original 78 x 41″ (198 x 104 cm.) three sheet film poster, conserved on linen, very good.

A genuinely scarce poster for a pre-WWII Black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green — demonstrating that Oscar Micheaux was not the only African American film director in the 1930s. Very little information is available about this comedy, which appears to be itself every bit as elusive as this poster. Costar Babe Matthews was married to Green and, in the 1930s, she was a very popular vocal artist whose repertoire contained everything from gospel to blues.

LEM HAWKINS’ CONFESSION (1935) Set of 8 photos

Np: Micheaux Productions, [1935]. Set of eight (8) vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, with scattered pinholes and marginal wear, overall very good+ or better.

Oscar Micheaux’ crime drama, also released under the title MURDER IN HARLEM, is a remake of his lost silent film THE GUNSAULUS MYSTERY (1921), a fictionalized account of the 1913 murder trial in Georgia of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan.

In this film, an African American man is framed for the murder of a white woman, but an author-turned-attorney manages to figure out what really happened and gets his client acquitted.

Paul Robeson – African American Superstar

Written by Walter Reuben on . Posted in African American Movie Memorabilia, African Americana, Black History.

Paul Robeson was a famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world. During the first half of the 20th Century, he rose to international prominence in a time when segregation was legal in the United States, and Black people were being lynched by racist mobs, especially in the South.

SWING (1938) Lobby card

(African American film) Np: Oscar Micheaux, [1938]. Vintage original 11 x 14″ (28 x 36 cm.) lobby card, USA. There are a few scattered staple holes and stains, VERY GOOD. SWING is an Oscar Micheaux feature about an African American attempting to be the first Black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer (Cora Green). This card shows Green seated at a bar, with one man on either side of her.

BETRAYAL, THE (1948) One sheet poster

Vintage original 41 x 27″ (104 x 69 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Leroy Collins, Myra Stanton, dir: Oscar Micheaux; Astor. Backed with conservation paper, with minor touch-ups along fold lines, very good+.

An extremely scarce poster for Oscar Micheaux’ last movie, an epic adaptation of his novel The Wind from Nowhere.

Sadly, this is a lost film. Richards 63

OSCAR POLK as ‘PORK’ | GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) Photo

Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white photo, USA. Dir: Victor Fleming; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Minor creasing, near fine.

Extremely scarce photo of gifted African American character actor Oscar Polk. He is pictured on the Selznick lot during filming of the epic classic film Gone with the Wind. Besides this film, Polk’s credits include The Green Pastures, Cabin in the Sky and two Oscar Micheaux films.

The studio has printed on verso some descriptive text, labeling his character as “faithful and true”.