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Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Eddie Cantor -- See Him Dance and Hear Him Sing in the "Phonofilms" -- December 21, 2024

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Minneapolis Journal , 19-December-1924 Eddie Cantor was a wildly talented performer on stage, screen, records, radio and television. He appe...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Langdon, as Usual, Does Highly Amusing Work -- December 14, 2024

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Moving Picture World , 27-December-1924 Harry Langdon played a street sweeper in "Feet of Mud." The film includes some racist st...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

They Are Subtly Teaching Us That They Are Superior -- May 30, 2024

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Baltimore Afro-American , 02-May-1924 The author of this article hopes that Oscar Micheaux will succeed so that "we may have more col...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Century Comedies -- Consistently Good -- February 29, 2024

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Motion Picture News , 02-February-1924 Baby Peggy Montgomery had been Century's biggest comedy star. She moved on to starring in featu...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Lloyd Hamilton Was Never Funnier -- January 28, 2024

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Motion Picture News , 19-January-1924 Lloyd Hamilton starred in a series of two-reel comedies released by Educational. Many are lost. Mo...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

"America" Will Open in N.Y. Feb. 21 -- January 9, 2024

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Motion Picture News , 19-January-1924 DW Griffith's epic of the American Revolutionary War, America , was scheduled to open in New Yor...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

The Duncan Sisters -- July 30, 2023

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San Francisco Examiner , 01-August-1923 Rosetta and Vivian Duncan were experienced vaudeville performers. In 1923 they started to tour in ...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Written, Acted and Produced by Colored People -- July 20, 2023

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Saint Louis Argus , 27-July-1923 Deceit was Evelyn Preer's first starring role. "The Most Beautiful Colored Actress on the screen...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

DW Griffith -- Jolson's Desertion -- July 8, 2023

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Film Daily , 09-July-1923 Last month we saw that director DW Griffith wanted to make a movie with Al Jolson who was well-known for perform...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Anna May Wong -- Ivory Skinned and Almond Eyed -- July 6, 2023

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Motion Picture Magazine , July, 1923 Anna May Wong was breathtakingly beautiful. The caption implies that she was born in China, but she w...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

100-Years-Lost Film Found at Cinémathèque Française -- April 1, 2023

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New York Evening World , 27-February-1915 In 1915, pioneer director D. W. Griffith released an epic film entitled The Birth of a Nation . ...