"New York's Famous Cotton Club Entertainers"26 May 1932Drama, Music69 mins
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson made his movie acting debut in this 1932 film, featuring Putney Dandridge, James Baskett (Oscar winner for "Song of the South"), Cotton Club dancer Anita Boyer, Henri Wassell, Alma Smith, Bob Sawyer, and composer/bandleader Eubie Blake and his orchestra.
A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage.
Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Supernaturally gifted fortune teller, Puff Daddy, ascends to stardom after a chance discovery. His powers aid Sultan in a crucial election victory, but his price is steep - Sultan's mistress.
Third-year university students are at the crossroads of their lives, confronted with life choices. Matsuoka Aoi loves the sea but has given up on her dream of oceanographic research due to her parents’ objections.
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story.
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem Hellfighters" of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Black cultural development.
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Alternative movies trailers for Harlem Is Heaven
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Harlem Is Heaven (1932) BILL "BOJANGLES" ROBINSON
BLACK HISTORY MONTH Stars: Bill Robinson Eubie Blake Anise Boyer Writer/Director: Irwin Franklyn This pre-Code crime drama/musical features an all ...
Preview Clip: Harlem is Heaven (1932 Bill Robinson Anise Boyer Henri Wessell)
Jean Stratton a gorgeous teenage girl arrives in Harlem looking for work. Her talent gets her a job ...
Harlem Is Heaven (1932) Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson Eubie Blake The Cotton Club Players
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Popular movie trailers from 1932
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Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves.
The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger wife, Lola Wall, to appear.
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation.
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios.
