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Laura Bowman
Laura Bowman (October 3, 1881 – March 29, 1957) was an American stage, radio, and film actress.Tanner, Jo A."Bowman, Laura" In Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. ''Black Women in America: Theater Arts and Entertainment'', Encyclopedia of Black Women in America. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1997. ''African-American History Online''. Facts On File, Inc. Early life and stage career Bowman was born in Quincy, Illinois, and grew up in Cincinnati. She performed in '' In Dahomey'' in London with her common-law husband, Pete Hampton, in the early 1900s. She joined the Lafayette Players, a Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater Harl ... acting troupe, in 1916 and worked with them on and off for several years. Filmography References External links * 1881 births 1957 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Hampton And Laura Bowman, 1906
Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character (played by several dogs) in Hal Roach's ''Our Gang'' comedies Places * Pete, Zanzibar, a village in Tanzania * Pete, the Hungarian name for Petea village, Dorolț Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania * Petes, Gotland, Visby, Gotland, Sweden * Petes Hill, a summit in the Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA * Petes Creek, a tributary of the Sacandaga River, located in New York State, USA Sports and athletics * The Pete, Petersen Events Center, athletics complex and basketball arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh * Pete the Penguin, one of the two mascots of Youngstown State University * Purdue Pete, bookstore logo turned unofficial mascot of Purdue University * A member of the Peterborough Petes junior ice hockey team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drums O' Voodoo
''Drums O' Voodoo'' (also known as ''Louisiana'' and ''She Devil'') is a 1934 film about voodoo. The film was written by J. Augustus Smith, based on his 1933 play ''Louisiana'', and was directed by Arthur Hoerl. Cast This is the cast of characters as listed in the title sequence of the film. * Laura Bowman as Aunt Hagar * Edna Barr as Myrtle Simpson * Lionel Monagas as Ebenezer * J. Augustus Smith J. Augustus Smith, also known as Gus Smith (born January 14, 1891), was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. In 1936 he was one of three theatre artists who succeeded John Houseman in leading the Negro Theatre Unit of the Federal Theat ... as Amos Berry * Morris McKenney as Thomas Catt * A. B. Comathiere as Deacon Dunson * Alberta Perkins as Sister Knight * Fred Bonny as Brother Zero * Paul Johnson as Brother August * Trixie Smith Smith as Sister Marguerite * Carrie Huff as Sister Zuran References External links * Drums o' Voodoo' at the '' AFI Catalog of Feature Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Berry (film Director)
John Berry (September 6, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American film director, who went into exile in France when his career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist. Early life Berry was born Jak Szold in The Bronx, New York, the son of a History of the Jews in Poland, Polish-Jewish father and a Romanians, Romanian mother. He was a child performer in vaudeville, first going on stage at the age of four. In his teens he briefly worked as a boxing, boxer under the name Jackie Sold. Berry's father was a restaurateur who at one point owned 28 restaurants around New York City but he went out of business during the Great Depression and Berry sought to support himself by working as a comedian and master of ceremonies in the Catskill resorts as well as working as an actor. Mercury Theatre and Hollywood Berry's first big break came when he was hired by the Mercury Theatre for its debut production, titled ''Caesar (Mercury Theatre), Caesar'' (1937). Berry acted in other roles with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Susie Slagle's
''Miss Susie Slagle's'' is a 1946 American drama film directed by John Berry. It was based on the popular novel by Augusta Tucker. The film was Berry's directorial debut and first starring role for Joan Caulfield. Plot summary A nursing student falls in love with a young medical intern in 1910 Baltimore, but their lives start to fall apart when he catches a deadly disease. Principal cast Production Original novel Augusta Tucker's novel was published in 1939. Paramount paid $20,000 for the film rights. The novel became a best seller. A sequel came out in 1942, ''The Man Miss Susie Loved''. Development In 1939 Martin Berkley was assigned to write the script. John Cromwell was assigned to direct under the supervision of Arthur Hornblow. In January 1941 Paramount announced Jean Arthur would star and Sam Wood would produce and direct with Lorraine Nobel writing a script. Jack Oakie was to play the comic male lead. In May 1941 Irene Dunne was named as lead. In June 1941 filming wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Of Ingagi
''Son of Ingagi'' is a 1940 American monster movie directed by Richard C. Kahn. It was the first science fiction horror film to feature an all-black cast.Moon 1997, p. 370 It was written by Spencer Williams based on his own short story, ''House of Horror''. Although the film's title appears to suggest that it is a sequel to the 1930 movie ''Ingagi'', it is not. (The latter is an exploitation film in the guise of an ethnographic film in which purported African women are given over to gorillas as sex slaves.) ''Son of Ingagi'' is about Elanor and Bob Lindsay inheriting the house of doctor Helen Jackson who had just returned from her trip to Africa. Jackson also had returned with a missing link monster named N'Gina as well as African gold. When N'Gina drinks the doctor's potion, it puts him into a rage that makes him murder Dr. Jackson. The Lindsay family inherits Jackson's house where they soon find the presence of the monster. Plot After the wedding of Eleanor and Bob Lindsay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Mae Harris
Edna Mae Harris (September 29, 1914 – September 15, 1997), sometimes credited as Edna May Harris was an American actress and singer. Harris was one of the first African–American film actress of the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in films featuring mostly African–American casts. Biography Early life and career Born in Harlem, Harris parents were Sam, a boxer and customs inspector; Her mother Mary Harris (née Walker) worked as a maid. Harris' family is noted as one of the first families to have migrated to Harlem. Settling near the Lafayette Theater, Harris was convinced into pursuing a career in show business by Ethel Waters and Maud Russell who were frequent visitors to her family home. After being coached on her singing and dancing by Waters and Russell, Harris began performing in the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). An African-American vaudeville circuit, Harris performed with TOBA from 1929 until 1933. Harris attended Wadleigh High School (late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Earl Jones
Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and professional boxer. One of the first prominent Black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career. Jones was best known for his leading roles in films such as ''Lying Lips'' (1939) and later in his career for supporting roles in films such as ''The Sting'' (1973), ''Trading Places'' (1983), '' The Cotton Club'' (1984), and ''Witness'' (1985). He was the father of actor James Earl Jones. Biography Early life Jones was born in northwestern Mississippi; the specific location is unclear as some sources indicate Senatobia, while others suggest nearby Coldwater. A son of Robert and Elnora Jones, Robert Earl Jones left school at an early age to work as a sharecropper to help his family. He later became a prizefighter. Under the name "Battling Bill Stovall", he was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Williams , a character from the cartoon series ''Totally Spies!''
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Gladys may refer to: * Gladys (given name), people with the given name Gladys * ''Gladys'' (album), a 2013 album by Leslie Clio * ''Gladys'' (film), 1999 film written and directed by Vojtěch Jasný * Gladys, Virginia, United States * '' Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow'', a 2002 sculpture of a cow * Hurricane Gladys (1968) * Talia Gladys, a character in the anime series ''Gundam Seed Destiny'' * the launch name used for USA-215, an American reconnaissance satellite * a character from the novel The Lost World * a character in the cartoon ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' See also * Michael Gladis (born 1977), American actor * GLADIS ''Totally Spies!'' is an Television animation, animated Spy fiction, spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French animation company Marathon Media and French broadcaster TF1, with seasons 3 to 5 bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Notorious Elinor Lee
''The Notorious Elinor Lee'' is a 1940 race film directed, written, and co-produced by the African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Plot Elinor Lee, a gangster’s moll living in the Harlem section of New York City, has signed up-and-coming boxer Benny Blue to a 10-year contract. Lee and a pair of corrupt fight promoter scheme to build up Blue as a potential champion, with the goal of betting against him when they force him to take a dive in a champion fight. Lee conspires to hire Fredi, an old friend of Blue and an escaped convict hiding from the law, to be his sweetheart and to control him for Lee and her partners. The plans are derailed when Blue loses a key fight to a German boxer, but he works to regain his standing in the sport and is able to meet the German in a rematch after two years have passed. Lee and her partners bet against Blue, but they are financially ruined when Blue prevails in the fight and comes out the winner. Production ''The Notorious Elinor Lee'' was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birthright (1939 Film)
''Birthright'' is a 1938 American drama film directed, co-produced and co-written by Oscar Micheaux. Carman Newsome stars as a black Harvard graduate facing racism and discrimination after he returns to his small hometown in Tennessee, where he hoped to develop a school similar to Tuskegee Institute or Hampton Institute, both historically black colleges.Larry Langman, David Ebner. ''Hollywood's Image of the South: A Century of Southern Films'' (2001), p. 95 . "Birthright (1939), Micheaux. Dir. Oscar Micheaux; Sc. Oscar Micheaux; Cast includes: Carman Newsome, Alec Lovejoy, Ethel Moses. Advertised as "A story of the Negro and the South," Oscar Micheaux's drama is based on the novel by T. S. Stribling." This is a talkie remake of Micheaux's 1924 silent film of the same name; both were adapted from white author T. S. Stribling's eponymous 1922 novel. Starring J. Homer Tutt, Micheaux's 1924 film was highly controversial for its graphic depiction of racism. The film is now considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Newsome
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. ''Carmen'' has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical Western canon, canon; the "Habanera (aria), Habanera" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of ''opéra comique'' with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God's Step Children
''God's Step Children'' is a 1938 American drama film directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Jacqueline Lewis. The film is inspired by a combination of elements shared from two previously released Hollywood productions, '' Imitation of Life'' and ''These Three''. Plot A young black woman arrives at the home of Mrs. Saunders, a widow who is black, and begs her to look after her light-skinned baby, whom she cannot afford to feed. At first she says this is temporary while she looks for work, but leaves declaring she will never be back. Mrs. Saunders pledges to raise the child as her own, along with her own son Jimmie. She names the child Naomi. Nine years later, schoolgirl Naomi is thought by the other black children to be aloof and they accuse the light-complexioned child of not wanting to be black. This looks true the day Naomi disappears on her way to school and Jimmie tells his mother that Naomi deliberately avoided the black school she was supposed to attend and instead went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
