[Film poster]: Up Jumped the Devil with Mantan Moreland and Shelton Brooks

Author: (MORELAND, Mantan)
Title: [Film poster]: Up Jumped the Devil with Mantan Moreland and Shelton Brooks
Publication: [No place]: A Dixie National Production Nationally Released by Consolidated National Film Exchange, [1941]

Description: Unbound. Original film poster. Measuring 14" x 18". Printed in red and blue on thin white cardboard. Slight smudging in the bottom margin else very near fine. Poster for a 1941 comedy that featured an all-black cast. A story about the antics of two criminals, Washington and Jefferson, just released from jail and forced to find jobs to maintain their parole. An opportunity appears where a woman wants to hire a butler and a maid, Jefferson (Shelton Brooks) convinces Washington (Mantan Moreland) to dress as a woman in order to get the maid's job. They run into another ex-con, Bad News Johnson, who tries to enlist them in a plot to scam their new employer. Moreland was a comedian who starred in many all-black films and also played in Hollywood films; Brooks was an actor, pianist, and composer of popular music and jazz. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates no copies; we haven't seen another.

Seller ID: 435115

Subject: African-Americana

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