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A magnet featuring Midnight Menace, 1946, by an unknown designer.
The film Midnight Menace is equal parts comedy, musical, and horror film and features vaudeville star Onnie “Lollypop” Jones as a performer who discovers the seemingly dead body of the wife of the former occupant of his dressing room. The film's poster focuses on a glamorous, buxom woman—albeit one who is presumably deceased.
The phrase “voodoo that is hoodoo” in the poster conflates two different African-derived spiritual practices; voodoo is a form of organized religion while hoodoo represents a looser spiritual framework that operated as a faith-based survival system for enslaved people and their descendants. Here, the terms serve both to exotify Black spiritual culture and add a level of supernatural excitement to the promotion.
Measures 3.5 x 2.5 inches.
