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Hollywood black : the stars, the films, the filmmakers
\"The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression, when black performers such as Stepin Fetchit and Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than not, they were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles, but some gifted performers, most notably Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939), were able to turn in significant performances. In the coming decades, more black talents would light up the screen. Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carmen Jones (1954), and Sidney Poitier broke ground in films like The Defiant Ones and 1963's Lilies of the Field. Hollywood Black reveals the changes in images that came about with the evolving social and political atmosphere of the US, from the Civil Rights era to the Black Power movement. The story takes readers through Blaxploitation, with movies like Shaft and Super Fly, to the emergence of such stars as Cicely Tyson, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg, and of directors Spike Lee and John Singleton. The history comes into the new millennium with filmmakers Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Ava Du Vernay (Selma), and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther); megastars such as Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Morgan Freeman; as well as Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, and a glorious gallery of others.\"--Amazon.com.
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Independent BLACK FILMMAKERS A Tradition Of Distinct Expression
Other important film directors of this time were Ossie Davis (\"Cotton Comes to Harlem\") and Gordon Parks (\"The Learning Tree,\" \"Shaft\"). Independent filmmakers such as St. Clair Bourne, Madelline Anderson and [William Greaves] directed clearheaded and often politically motivated documentaries. In the late 1980s, Greaves, now considered the dean of independents, served for two years as the executive producer and co-host of the ground-breaking PBS series \"Black Journal.\" Afterwards, he directed a series of sometimes controversial but nonetheless fascinating and provocative films: \"School Daze\" (1988), \"Do The Right Thing\" (1989), \"Mo' Better Blues\" (1990) and \"Jungle Fever\" (1991). Charles Lane directed Disney's $16 million \"True Identity\" (1991). [Charles Burnett]'s family drama, \"To Sleep With Anger,\" and Wendell Harris' \"Chameleon Street,\" garnered impressive critical attention. In 1991, Michael Schultz,a seasoned filmmaker from the 1970s, directed the satiric comedy \"Livin' Large.\"
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bookworm; Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez, LLC
Almost from the moment she was born, Elizabeth Taylor's life was \"like something of a fairy tale...\" She was a beautiful child who grew up to be a beautiful young woman with a mother who made it her mission to ensure that Elizabeth was a star. Sara Taylor enrolled her daughter in all the best classes and was ever on the lookout for opportunity; in 1939, that insistence on fame grew when the family moved to California. Two years later, as a result of two conversations her father had with influential Hollywood starmakers, Elizabeth, not quite ten years old, was invited to try out for Lassie Come Home.
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The last days of Dorothy Dandridge
Excerpts from \"Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography\" are presented.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST DID HOLLYWOOD DESTROY Dorothy Dandridge?
It was Oscar night, March 30, 1955. A limousine pulled up in front of New York City's Century Theater, and Dorothy Dandridge stepped out. As she smiled and waved, the crowd went wild, screaming and shouting her name. Photographers rushed to snap pictures while reporters pressed her for a comment.
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BLACK FILMMAKERS
Today, as audiences eagerly rush out to see a film by Space Lee or John Singleton, some may assume that the history of African-American cinema begins with such contemporary directors. The work of African-American filmmakers, however, spans...
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