By the late 1930s, Ethel Moses was a celebrity in the Black movie world and received top billing in all her films. The movie industry was in its golden age, and many studios wanted to give audiences a glimpse of its legendary glamour—even if it came at the expense of sexually exploiting its leading ladies. Because it is a lost film, little is known about Gone Harlem beyond a brief surviving description of its story of an artist’s model who becomes a movie star. The lobby cards feature actual stills from the film, offering viewers the only glimpse of key scenes. In one of the most titillating scenes in the film, Ethel Moses poses nude for an artist. In the film’s poster, her body is tastefully draped with a white cloth—probably due to censorship guidelines. But on the film’s lobby card, she is almost completely nude, highlighting the exploitative nature of an industry that physically exposed Black women for male pleasure and often portrayed Black actors as sexually perverse.