Re-release one-sheet poster for the film, “The Mad Lover” or “Enemy of Women” (1944)
Extent and Medium
Overall: Height: 41.250 inches (104.775 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
Creator(s)
- Astor Pictures Corp. (Distributor)
- Monogram Pictures (Distributor)
- W.R. Frank Productions (Production Company)
- Ken Sutak (Compiler)
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur
Scope and Content
One-sheet poster for the 1952 re-release of the film, “The Mad Lover,” originally released as “Enemy of Women” in November 1944. The film begins in 1925, and shows a fictionalized account of a young Paul Joseph Goebbels as he rises through the ranks of the Nazi party. He becomes the Minister of Propaganda, earns a reputation as a womanizer, and exacts revenge on a woman who scorns his attention. The film was produced by W.R. Frank, the owner of a theater chain in Minneapolis, and directed by Alfred Zeisler, a German expatriate who claimed to have worked on propaganda films with Goebbels himself. The film focuses on Goebbels’s character and personal life, addressing his abuse of political position and power to his own advantage. 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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
One-sheet poster with a yellow background printed on rectangular, off-white paper with a narrow, white margin on all four sides. At the top of the poster, printed in red ink, is a line of advertising copy, with additional black copy along the upper right side. Filling much of the top half of the poster is a large, photographic image of a man in a brown suit gripping a woman in a pink blouse by the shoulders. She has curly hair and is looking over her right shoulder, as she leans away from him with furrowed brows, a tight mouth, and the whites of her eyes showing. Overlaying the image, in the center of the poster, is a small, black, rectangle with a tagline printed in red ink. The rectangle is shaped like a tag, and the string is looped around a black-and-white, photographic image of a man and woman embracing in a kiss on the right side of the poster. To the left of the tag, is another black-and-white, photographic image, depicting a diagonal line of uniformed soldiers in right profile, standing at attention. In the lower left corner of the poster, the film’s title is printed in stylized, red text, and the cast and credits are printed below in red and black text. In the lower right corner, is an image of a woman, depicted from the chest up. She has long, brown, curly hair, is wearing a low-cut, red blouse, and is looking seductively at the viewer. Printing information is in the bottom margin, printed in blue ink. The poster was previously folded into eight sections, and is heavily creased along the folds. The edges are stained and torn. Depicted: Claudia Drake as Maria Brandt, Paul Andor as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Donald Woods as Dr. Hans Traeger, Beryl Wallace as Jenny Hartmann, others unidentified
People
- Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945.
- Drake, Claudia.
- Woods, Donald, 1906-1998.
- Andor, Paul, 1901-1991.
Subjects
- Germany.
- Biographical films.
- National socialism in motion pictures.
- Revenge in motion pictures.
- Germans in motion pictures.
- Austria.
- Nazis in motion pictures.
- United States.
- Women in motion pictures.
Genre
- Object
- Posters.
- Posters