''Big Timers'' is a 1945 American musical comedy

race film The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race films were produce ...

directed by

Bud Pollard Bud Pollard (born John Evelyn Godson; May 12, 1895 – December 17, 1952) was a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor. Pollard is known for such films as ''It Happened in Harlem ''It Happened in Harlem'' is an ...

. The bottom of a poster for the film notes "The secrets of a

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in a Sugar Hill Hotel!" The film features a love story.

Cast

Stepin Fetchit Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black a ...

Francine Everett Francine Everett (born Franciene Williamson; April 13, 1915 – May 27, 1999) was an American actress and singer. Everett is best known for her performances in race films, independently produced motion pictures with all-black casts that we ...

* Lou Swarz *

Gertrude Saunders Gertrude C. Saunders (August 25, 1903 – April 1991) was an American singer, actress and comedian, active from the 1910s to the 1940s. Biography She was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and studied at Benedict College, Columbia before leavi ...

*Tarzana as The Whoopie Dancer *

Milton Woods Milton Woods was an actor. He was in several films. In 1946, ''Newsweek'' described him as the "colored Basil Rathbone". In 1951, ''Jet'' reported that he directed of the American Negro Repertory Theater, touring the country in a trailer. Filmogr ...

*Duke Williams *Walter Earle *Ed Hunter *Rocky Brown

References

External links

* * * 1945 films 1945 musical comedy films American short films African-American musical comedy films Race films American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{musical-comedy-film-stub