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Mamba's Daughters
''Mamba's Daughters'' () is a 1929 in literature, 1929 novel written by DuBose Heyward and published by the University of South Carolina Press. It was later adapted by Heward and his wife Dorothy Heyward for the stage; the play premiered on Broadway in 1939. Novel The book is set in the early 20th century, following three different families in scenes of deception and social transformation. The book also explores Racism, racial boundaries during that period of the 20th century. It received positive reviews, with the ''Georgia Historical Quarterly'' commenting that it provided "a unique perspective not only of Charleston's racial tensions, but also of the unique subculture shared by Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston's elite whites and poorer blacks". ''Mamba's Daughters'' was translated into French (1932) and Dutch (1939). Stage adaptation The novel was adapted for the stage by Heyward and his wife Dorothy Heyward, with songs by Jerome Kern; it premiered on Broadway theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1929. Events *January 10 – ''The Adventures of Tintin'' begin with the first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero in ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets)'', serialized in the children's newspaper supplement ''Le Petit Vingtième''. *February–August – Voltaire's ''Candide'' (1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston. *February – The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, ''The Crime at Black Dudley'' (U.S. title: ''The Black Dudley Murder''), is published in the UK. *March – Norah C. James's first novel, ''Sleeveless Errand'', is held to be obscene on publication in London, for its portrayal of the city's bohemian life. An edition appears later in Paris from Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press. *April 1 – The Faber and Faber publishing company is founded in London by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredi Washington
Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 – June 28, 1994) was an American stage and film actress, civil rights activist, performer, and writer. Washington was of African-American descent. She was one of the first black American to gain recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s. Washington was active in the Harlem Renaissance (1920s–1930s), her best known role being Peola in the 1934 film version of '' Imitation of Life'', where she plays a young light-skinned woman who decides to pass as white. Her last film role was in ''One Mile from Heaven'' (1937), after which she left Hollywood and returned to New York to work in theatre and civil rights activism. Early life Fredi Washington was born in 1903 in Savannah, Georgia, to Robert T. Washington, a postal worker, and Harriet "Hattie" Walker Ward, a dancer. Both were of African-American and European ancestry. Fredi was the second of their five children. Her mother died when Fredi was 11 years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Wright (actor)
Jimmy Wright was an American stage and film actor. A member of the all-black cast of the Voodoo ''Macbeth'' production directed by Orson Welles in 1936, Wright went on to star as 'Dollar Bill' Burton in ''Souls of Sin'', a 1949 feature directed by Powell Lindsay and produced by William D. Alexander that has been described as the last race film from a black producer. In 1980, credited as "Jim Wright," he played Father Brown in ''Personal Problems'', a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is '' M ..., but died between production of the first and second episodes. References External links * ''Listing for "Souls of Sin"'' * ''Listing for "Personal Problems"'' American male film actors American male stage actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Mestayer
Harry Mestayer (1876–1958) was an actor in silent films and theatrical productions in the U.S. He had leading roles and was a supporting actor in more than two dozen films and numerous theaterical productions. He performed in California, was in several hits in Chicago and performed on Broadway. He was the son of Shakespearean actor Charles Mestayer and had several actors in his family. He eventually married Victory Bateman. The Museum of the City of New York has several photographs of him in acting roles. Filmography *'' The House of a Thousand Candles (1915 film)'' as Jack Glenam *'' Stop Thief! (1915 film)'' as Jack Dougan *'' Millionaire Baby'' (1915) *''Badgered (1916 film)'' (1916) *'' Wives of the Rich'' (1916) *''Her Dream of Life'' (1916) *'' Wife or Country'' (1918), co-wrote and starred in as Dale Barker *''The Atom (1918 film)'' as Montague Booth *'' Unguarded Women'' (1924) as Sing Woo *''Flapper Wives'' (1924), as Charles Bigelow *''Black Oxen'' (1923) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Lee
Canada Lee (born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata; March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952) was an American professional boxer and then an actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. After careers as a jockey, boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project, including the 1936 production of ''Macbeth'' adapted and directed by Orson Welles. Lee later starred in Welles's original Broadway production of ''Native Son'' (1941). A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Lee was blacklisted and died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He advanced the African American tradition in theatre pioneered by such actors as Paul Robeson. Lee was the father of actor Carl Lee. Biography Early life Lee was born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata on March 3, 1907, in the San Juan Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. His father, James Cornelius Lionel Canegata, was born on the Caribbean island of St. Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. After twenty years of working as a nurse, Hunter resumed her singing career in 1977. Early life Hunter was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Laura Peterson, who worked as a maid in a Memphis brothel, and Charles Hunter, a Pullman porter. Hunter said she never knew her father. She attended Grant Elementary School, off Auction Street, which she called Auction School, in Memphis. She attended school until around age 15. Hunter had a difficult childhood. Her father left when she was a child, and to support the family her mother worked as a servant in a brothel in Memphis, although she married again in 1906. Hunter was not happy with her new family and left for Chicago, Illinois, around the age of 11, in the hopes of becoming a paid singer; she had heard that it paid 10 dollars per week. Instead of finding a job as a singer she had to earn mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award, making him the first Hispanic actor and the first Puerto Rican-born to win an Oscar. His other notable film roles include Charles VII in ''Joan of Arc'' (1948), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in ''Moulin Rouge'' (1952), defense attorney Barney Greenwald in ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1954), Alfred Dreyfus in ''I Accuse!'' (1958), which he also directed; the Turkish Bey in ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), Siegfried Rieber in ''Ship of Fools'' (1965), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dowdy
Helen Dowdy was a Broadway actress and singer who played the role of Queenie in the 1946 revival of Kern and Hammerstein's '' Show Boat'' (a role originally played by Tess Gardella in 1927). She was born in New York City. Dowdy created the roles of Lily and the Strawberry Woman in George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess'' — roles she played for nearly twenty years in several productions. In the 1951 so-called "complete" recording of the opera, she sang both roles as well as that of Maria. In 1944, Dowdy performed with Katherine Dunham, troupe on tour. Dowdy also appeared on television on the October 17, 1957, episode of ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' as the Stout Angel in a television production of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ''The Green Pastures ''The Green Pastures'' is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from ''Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'' (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Burke
Georgia Burke (February 27, 1878 — November 28, 1985) was an American actress who had performed on television, radio, and Broadway theatre between the 1930s and the 1960s. In 1934 Burke made her debut in Broadway in ''They Shall Not Die'', and in 1944 she won a Donaldson Award as the third choice for Best Supporting Actress in Edward Chodorov's play, ''Decision''. Burke had performed in the 1952 U.S. State Department-sponsored international production of ''Porgy and Bess'' and had taken a role as a nurse in the radio program ''When a Girl Marries'', which had been broadcast for 18 years. She had also performed in the 1944 Broadway production of '' Anna Lucasta'' and its second film counterpart in 1958. Burke has been credited as one of the early appearances of the "stereotyped humorous black maid" in entertainment since her appearance in the radio soap opera ''Betty and Bob''. She died in 1985 at the age of 107, at the De Witt Nursing Home in Manhattan. Early life and career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Bryant
William Stevens Bryant (August 30, 1908 – February 9, 1964) was an American jazz bandleader, vocalist, and disc jockey, known as the "Mayor of Harlem". Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, while growing up he took trumpet lessons to little success. His first job in entertainment was dancing in the Whitman Sisters Show in 1926. He worked in various vaudeville productions for the next several years, and in 1934 he appeared in the show ''Chocolate Revue'' with Bessie Smith. In 1934, he put together his first big band, which at times included Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole, Johnny Russell (saxophonist), Johnny Russell, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Eddie Durham, Ram Ramirez, and Taft Jordan. They recorded six times between 1935 and 1938; Bryant sings on 18 of the 26 sides recorded. Once his ensemble disbanded, Bryant worked in acting and disc jockeying. He recorded R&B in 1945 and led another big band between 1946 and 1948. During September and October 1949, he hosted '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Brown
Anne Brown (August 9, 1912March 13, 2009) was an American soprano for whom George Gershwin rewrote the part of "Bess" into a leading role in the original production of his opera ''Porgy and Bess'' in 1935. She was also a radio and concert singer. She settled in Norway in 1948 and later became a Norwegian citizen. Early life and career (1912–1936) A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Annie Wiggins Brown was the daughter of Dr. Harry F. Brown, a physician, and his wife, the former Mary Allen Wiggins. Her father was the grandson of a slave and her mother's parents were of black, Cherokee Indian, and Scottish-Irish origins. She had three sisters, Henrietta, Mamie, and Harriet. As an African-American, she was not allowed to attend a Roman Catholic elementary school in her native Baltimore. She trained at Morgan College and then applied to the Peabody Institute, but was rejected from the school due to her race. Brown then applied to the Juilliard School in New York at the encourageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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