A number of movie theater lobby cards, posters and inter-office memos from the Toddy Pictures Company during the 1940s.

A number of movie theater lobby cards, posters and inter-office memos from the Toddy Pictures Company during the 1940s. Plus there are hand-written notes, perhaps from Henry R. Arias (Astor Export Corp), detailing plans for the implementation of an exclusive three-year deal for the international rights to many of Ted Toddy's "race/negro" films.
Here are some of the films represented in this marvelous collection of 1940s movie memorabilia (donated by Gary Blevins): Bronze Venus (with Lena Horne), Sunday Sinners, Woman's A Fool, Caldonia, Paradise 'n Harlem, Murder on Lenox Avenue, The Beast of Borneo, Harlem on the Prairie, Voodoo Devil Drums, Beware (with Louis Jordan), Pigmeat Alamo Markham, Mantan Messes Up, Shut My Big Mouth, The Wrong Mr. Wright, Crime Street, Ill Wind, A Night With the Devil, The Corpse Accuses, Fight That Ghost, House-Rent Party, Gangsters on the Loose, Prison Bait, Murder rap, His Harlem Wife, Fighting Americans, Crooked Money, Condemned Man, Gun Moll, Buck and Bubbles Laugh Jubilee, Pigmeat Markham's Laugh Hepcats, Up Jumped the Devil, Night Cub Girl, One Round Jones, Mr. Washington Goes to Town, Eddie Green's Laugh Jamboree, Professor Creeps, and more....