Pair of lobby cards for the film “Once Upon a Honeymoon” (1942)
Extent and Medium
.1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
.2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
Creator(s)
- RKO Radio Pictures (Distributor)
- Ken Sutak (Compiler)
- RKO Radio Pictures (Production Company)
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 lobby cards were 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
Pair of lobby cards for the American feature film, “Once Upon a Honeymoon,” released by RKO Radio Pictures in November 1942. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film tells the story of an American journalist in Europe, who falls in love with an American burlesque dancer posing as a socialite, who marries an Austrian baron. After discovering that the baron is a Nazi secret agent, the two Americans are accidentally thrown into a concentration camp. They secure their release and begin following the baron across Western Europe. Most of the marketing billed the film as a romantic escapade, and many reviewers called it tasteless in light of the atrocities occurring in Nazi-controlled Europe. 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
.1 Lobby card printed on rectangular, off-white paper. The card has a white exterior border on all four sides, and a large photographic image in the center. The image depicts a man in a Nazi uniform, opening a wooden door into a bedroom. Behind the door is a red-haired woman, wearing a bright green evening dress and dark brown, fur stole. She has her hand on a telephone, and is looking warily at the opening door. The room is well appointed, with blue damask wallpaper, framed paintings on the walls, an ornate wooden headboard, and lamps with pink shades. The image is overlaid by a yellow frame along the bottom, which angles upwards at the corners, extending halfway up the sides. In the left corner is a blue-toned image of the woman depicted above, and in the right corner is a blue toned image of a man in a housecoat, smiling and pointing with one finger. The names of the lead actors and the film tile are printed in the frame in red and black ink. Copyright and printing information is printed in blue ink in the bottom margin. There is water staining along the bottom edge, and the edges are worn overall. There is a pinhole in the top center, and ink transfer from another image on the back. Left to Right: Ginger Rogers as Kathie O’Hara/Baroness Katherine Von Luber, Walter Slezak as Baron Franz Von Luber, Cary Grant as Patrick O’Toole .2 Lobby card printed on rectangular, off-white paper. The card has a white exterior border on all four sides, and a large photographic image in the center. The image depicts a group of Nazi soldiers sitting at small, bistro tables on the sidewalk outside of a restaurant. On the right side of the image, a man in a light gray suit and a Nazi officer wearing a red armband stand close together near the curb. The officer has his right hand on the other man’s shoulder, and the man in the suit is holding a black hat in his hands. The image is overlaid by a yellow frame on the bottom, which angles upwards at the corners, extending halfway up the sides. In the left corner is a blue-toned image of a woman in an evening dress and stole, and in the right corner is a blue-toned image of the man in a suit above in a housecoat, smiling and pointing with one finger. The names of the lead actors and the film tile are printed in the frame in red and black ink. Copyright and printing information is printed in blue ink in the bottom margin. The margins are discolored, and the edges are worn with small tears. There are several pinholes in each corner, and ink transfer from another image on the back. Depicted: Ginger Rogers as Kathie O’Hara/Baroness Katherine Von Luber, Cary Grant as Patrick O’Toole, Walter Slezak as Baron Franz Von Luber
.1-.2: back, upper left, handwritten, pencil : C
People
- Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995.
- Grant, Cary, 1904-1986.
- Dekker, Albert, 1905-1968.
- Slezak, Walter, 1902-1983.
Subjects
- International relations in motion pictures.
- Foreign agents.
- United States.
- Nazis in motion pictures.
- Political violence in motion pictures.
- Lobby cards.
- Americans--Foreign countries.
- Spy films.
- Imprisonment in motion pictures.
- Anti-Nazi movement in motion pictures.
Genre
- Object
- Posters
- Display Cards.