IRVIN C MILLER Brown Skin Models Worlds Greatest Colored Rev

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IRVIN C. MILLER. Brown Skin Models. Worlds Greatest Colored Review. Multi-colored lithographic poster. 26-1/2 x 41 inches. Framed. Np, circa 1925

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Irvin Colloden Miller was an African-American actor, playwright and vaudeville show writer and producer. In 1925, Miller started an annual show, Brown Skin Models, inspired by the Ziegfeld Follies but glorifying attractive black women. Miller "specialized in revues featuring beautiful showgirls, snappy dancing, and comedy". It has been said of him that he "had a unique ability to locate pretty girls and talented performers for his shows; and he gave Black audiences exactly what they wanted when they came to the theatre…. .in the 1920s and 1930s, he was arguably the most well-established and successful producer of black musical comedy."