"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 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.
The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band during its sunset years: 87-year-old Al Casey, who had worked closely with Fats Waller throughout the 1930s; guitarist Lawrence Lucie, 95 years young, from the bands of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Duke Ellington; saxophonist Bubba Brooks, 79, who was with Bill Doggett; Edwin Swanston, 80, pianist with Louis Armstrong's Orchestra; 91-year-old drummer Johnny Blowers, ex-Bunny Berigan, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra; Ivan Rolle, 85, bassist with Jonah Jones; and 88-year-old Laurel Watson, one-time vocalist with Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
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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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Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun.
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.