Ethel Waters
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1896-10-31
Geburtsort: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Auch bekannt als: Sweet Mama Stringbean
Tales of Manhattan
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.08.05Popularität : 5.806
Cairo
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.08.17Popularität : 4.801
Pinky
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.09.28Popularität : 10.848
The Member of the Wedding
Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.
Veröffentlichung : 1952.12.25Popularität : 4.683
Cabin in the Sky
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.03.24Popularität : 4.795
Soundies Festival
From the great era of musical shorts come three gems that feature legendary African-American performers including Ethel Waters, Eddy Green and the...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.01Popularität : 0.245
On With the Show!
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...
Veröffentlichung : 1929.07.13Popularität : 2.192
The Sound and the Fury
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith,...
Veröffentlichung : 1959.03.27Popularität : 2.517
Bubbling Over
In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.04.19Popularität : 1.376
Rufus Jones for President
A fantasy satire on politics in which a little boy dreams that he becomes President of the U.S. and his 'mammy' is Vice President. The film...
Veröffentlichung : 1933.09.09Popularität : 0.799
Blues Masters
In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and...
Veröffentlichung : 1999.01.01Popularität : 1.637
Let My People Live
Aimed at African Americans and shot at Tuskegee University, this film instructs viewers in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by focusing...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.10Popularität : 0.305
Stage Door Canteen
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.06.24Popularität : 7.047
The Heart is a Rebel
While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s...
Veröffentlichung : 1958.01.01Popularität : 1.35
Gift of Gab
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.09.01Popularität : 3.358
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this...
Veröffentlichung : 1989.01.01Popularität : 0.057
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Veröffentlichung : 1975.08.06Popularität : 6.028
That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...
Veröffentlichung : 1976.05.16Popularität : 7.845
The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.10.16Popularität : 0.865
Carib Gold
The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
Veröffentlichung : 1957.09.30Popularität : 1.245
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Veröffentlichung : 1975.04.19Popularität : 2.388
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...
Veröffentlichung : 2003.04.03Popularität : 7.741
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by...
Veröffentlichung : 1956.10.27Popularität : 1.332