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Harry Henderson (actor)
Harry Henderson was an actor in theater and films in the United States. He made four films with the Colored Players Film Corporation. He was also cast in several Oscar Micheaux films and had a starring role in the film melodrama ''The Scar of Shame''. He portrays a wealthy concert pianist in the film. He also had a lead role in the 1926 film '' The Prince of His Race''. Filmography *'' Uncle Jasper's Will'' (1922) *'' The Dungeon'' (1922) *'' The Ghost of Tolston's Manor'' (1923) *'' The Virgin of Seminole'' (1923) *'' Ten Nights in a Barroom'' (1926) as Willie Hammond, the Judge's Son *'' The Prince of His Race'' (1926) as Tom Beuford *''The House Behind the Cedars'' (1927) *'' Children of Fate'' (1928) *''The Scar of Shame ''The Scar of Shame'' is a silent film shot in the winter of 1927 and released in April 1929. It is a silent film melodrama featuring black actors and was written for a predominantly black audience.Cripps, Thomas. Black Film as Genre. Indiana Un ...'' (1929) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colored Players Film Corporation
The Colored Players Film Corporation, also known as The Colored Players Film Corporation of Philadelphia, was an independent silent film production company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Primarily founded by David Starkman and Sherman H. Dudley in 1926, the film company for the most part made silent melodramatic films that featured all African American casts. During its brief time operating, the production company released four films, including '' A Prince of His Race'' (1926), a remake of Timothy Shay Arthur’s '' Ten Nights in a Bar Room'' (1926) with an all black cast, '' Children of Fate'' (1927), and finally ''The Scar of Shame'' (1929). Of the four films the company produced only ''Ten Nights in a Bar Room'' and ''The Scar of Shame'' remain extant. Shingzie Howard was one of its stars. Founders Sherman H. “Uncle Dud” Dudley was born in Dallas, Texas around 1872. Growing up Dudley was part of medicine and minstrel shows and by the 1890s had become a popular perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race films, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". He produced both silent films and sound films. Early life and education Micheaux was born on a farm in Metropolis, Illinois, on January 2, 1884.Betti Carol VanEpps-Taylor, ''Oscar Micheaux – A Biography: Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Film Maker'' Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scar Of Shame
''The Scar of Shame'' is a silent film shot in the winter of 1927 and released in April 1929. It is a silent film melodrama featuring black actors and was written for a predominantly black audience.Cripps, Thomas. Black Film as Genre. Indiana University Press, 1978. Print. It premiered from April 13–17, 1929 in the M&S Douglas Theatre in New York City. Its second screening ran from April 15–20, 1929 at Gibson's Theatre, Philadelphia. It was produced by the Colored Players Film Corporation of Philadelphia, in one of the early examples of race movies, in which an entirely black cast performed a feature film specifically for a black audience. The film was produced and written by David Starkman and was directed by Frank Peregini, both white. It was one of the later silent race movies. Melodramas were the genre of choice for early 20th-century black filmmakers. This film emerged during a time of great breakthroughs in not only African American film but all art with the Harlem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prince Of His Race
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Jasper's Will
''Uncle Jasper's Will'' (also released as ''Jasper Landry's Will'') is a 1922 race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. The film was intended as a sequel to Micheaux’s landmark feature ''Within Our Gates'' (1920).Spencer Moon''Reel Black Talk: A Sourcebook of 50 American Filmmakers'' Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 249. Cast *William Fountaine *Shingzie Howard *Alma Sewell *Harry Henderson (actor) See also *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reas ... References External links * 1922 films American silent featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dungeon (1922 Film)
''The Dungeon'' is a 1922 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux, considered the African-American Cecil B. DeMille due to his prolific output of films during the silent era, one of his greatest works being ''Body and Soul (1925 film), Body and Soul'' (1924). ''The Dungeon'' was his first horror effort, an early blaxploitation take on the ''Bluebeard'' legend. Micheaux was criticized by D. Ireland Thomas, a columnist with the ''Chicago Defender'', for his casting of light-skinned African Americans who could pass for white, attempting to make his films more commercially successful. Thomas questioned whether Micheaux was "relying on his name alone to tell the public that it is a race production; or maybe he is after booking it in white theaters." No print of the film is known to exist and it is presumed to be a lost film. Plot The film focuses on Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman who is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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