(ENTERTAINMENT FILM) The Lure of a Woman Featuring a Not

Sale 2663 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 406

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(ENTERTAINMENT--FILM.) The Lure of a Woman, Featuring . . . a Notable Cast of Colored Players. Full-sheet poster, 41 x 27 inches; minor edge wear; backed by linen. Kansas City: Quigley Litho for the Progress Picture Producing Association, [1921]

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Poster for an early "race film," which is also regarded as the first feature film shot in Kansas City. The film's star Dr. A. Porter Davis (1890-1976) was an interesting character. In addition to acting as a hobby, he was a medical school graduate and head of the Davis Maternity Sanitarium for Unwed Mothers in Kansas City; he was also a jazz musician, and later became a noted airplane pilot as well. Separate Cinema, page 7.