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Film poster for Cleopatra Jones

1973

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A promotional poster for the film Cleopatra Jones. Depicted at the center of the poster Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones. She is wearing a white fur long-sleeve jacket with an orange shirt underneath. She is also wearing black bell bottom pants with an orange stripe down the legs and black shoes. She is holding a black gun with a shoulder stock in her right hand. The gun is resting on her hip. She is standing in front of a yellow and orange circular flame with black-and-white drawings of various scenes from the movie inside of it. These scenes include a car chase, her kicking two men, a close-up of a woman's face singing or talking, a woman on a motorcycle, Cleopatra Jones shooting, and a fight scene in front of a city. “Cleopatra / Jones” is written at center left in red and yellow type.

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Catalog reference: 2014.53.2

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