Description
Lobby card for the 1949 Realart Re-release of the film "Imitation of Life".The lobby card features a tinted photograph of a scene from the movie. In the image, Claudette Colbert kneels before a seated Louise Beavers. Colbert is a brown hat, fur stole, jacket and gloves and Beavers wears blue. Both women face each other, in profile to the camera. To the left of the image is a yellow background and a colored illustration of the same two women. Beneath the illustration in white text over a blue background is written [CLAUDETTE / Colbert / in / Fannie Hurst's GREAT NOVEL / IMITATION OF LIFE]. Beneath this in red against a white background is [with LOUISE BEAVERS / A JOHN M. STAHL production]. Along the bottom center is listed the rest of the cast and in the bottom right is a blue logo reading [A Realart RE-RELEASE]. There is blue text on the proper bottom left side of the image in the border which reads [6 COUNTRY OF ORIGIN U.S.A. R-49/650].Transcribed by digital volunteers
Ink On Paper
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
