Black-and-white photographic scene still from the movie, “So Ends Our Night.” The photograph depicts a man and woman sitting at a restaurant table with a patterned tablecloth and two glasses of wine. The man, on the right, is wearing a dark suit, and is looking at the woman, on the left. She has short, curled hair and is wearing a short-sleeved blouse. The photograph has a white margin across the top and bottom, and three columns of small, black text in the bottom margin. On the back of the photograph, there is a large, crossed out pencil inscription, and a small pencil inscription written sideways, along the left edge. There are small discolored areas in the bottom margin, and a partial tear in the bottom left corner. There are discolorations and fragments of paper in each corner on the back, likely where the photograph was previously adhered to another surface. Left to right: Margaret Sullavan as Ruth, Fredric March as Steiner back, center, handwritten, pencil : [crossed out] DERELICTOS HUMANO [Human Derelicts] back, left, handwritten, pencil : [sideways] F March / M Sullavan / 1941 back, top left corner, handwritten, pencil : [sideways] 19054
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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.
The scene still was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
Overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)
Scene still for the American feature film, “So Ends Our Night,” released in the United States in February 1941, and re-released in 1948. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. “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.
Scene still for the film “So Ends Our Night” (1941)