The lobby card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
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Overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
Lobby card for the film “So Ends Our Night” (1941)
Lobby card with a large photographic image of a scene still printed on rectangular off-white paper from the film, “So Ends Our Night.” The image depicts a man embracing a woman and kissing the corner of her mouth. The man, on the right, is in left profile and wears a green jacket. He has a cut on his left temple. The woman, on the left, has her face turned slightly to her right, and is wearing a pink cardigan. They are sitting together on an indoor bench with a tall backrest, covered in a floral, purple fabric. Just visible above their heads is the lower portion of a wooden frame, set into a yellow wall. The card has a white margin on all four sides, and the bottom right corner has an inset rectangular box with a curved top edge, containing the film title and credits. The curved section has a background of blue, resembling the sky, with the silhouette of two people standing in front of a sun on the horizon. Blue text with the copyright information is printed in the bottom margin. On the back of the lobby card is a number, handwritten in pen, in one corner. There are three pinholes in the center of the left edge, and four in the center of the right. Left to right: Frances Dee and Fredric March as Marie and Joseph Steiner back, top left corner, handwritten, blue pen : 817
Lobby card for the American feature film, “So Ends Our Night,” released in the United States in February 1941, and re-released in 1948. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. “So Ends Our Night” was an independently produced adaptation of the 1939 novel, “Flotsam,” by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque was a German veteran of World War I, who became famous for writing “All Quiet on the Western Front” about war and the experiences of German soldiers. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Remarque’s works were deemed “unpatriotic” and banned. He fled for Switzerland, had his German citizenship revoked in 1938, and immigrated to the United States just before the start of World War II. “So Ends Our Night” begins in 1937 and focuses on three German refugees, whose paths cross on multiple occasions as they move throughout Western Europe to flee Nazi persecution. It highlights the predicament of (largely Jewish) refugees who are unable to obtain the legal documentation needed to enter or settle in free countries. It was one of the first Hollywood film to focus on the experiences of refugees. Despite a revised marketing campaign, the film was widely viewed as too solemn, slow, and lacking in drama. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
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