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Lydia Bailey
''Lydia Bailey'' is a 1952 American historical adventure film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dale Robertson, Anne Francis and Charles Korvin. It was made by 20th Century Fox and based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts. Plot In 1802, American lawyer Albion Hamlin travels from Baltimore to Cap-Français in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. He wants to obtain the signature of Lydia Bailey, whose late father left his large estate to the American government, which needs the money. Saint-Domingue is in turmoil as French troops are being sent by Napoleon to reclaim control of the colony from Toussaint Louverture. Albion learns that Lydia is with her fiancé, French Colonel Gabriel D'Autremont, in the outskirts of Cap-Français. Albion goes to the American consulate in the city, but is shocked when his young guide Nero is attacked by men trying to steal his luggage. They attack him too but he is able to fight them off and rescue Nero with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue () was a French colonization of the Americas, French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1803. The name derives from the Spanish main city on the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer specifically to the Spanish-held Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic. The borders between the two were fluid and changed over time until they were finally solidified in the Dominican War of Independence in 1844. The French had established themselves on the western portion of the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga (Haiti), Tortuga thanks to the Devastations of Osorio. In the Treaty of Ryswick of 1697, Spain formally recognized French control of Tortuga Island and the western third of the island of Hispaniola. In 1791, slaves and some Saint-Domingue Creoles, Creoles took part in a Haitian Vodou, Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman and planned the Haitian Revolution. The slave rebe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Boyd
Mildred Boyd (1908–1999) was an actress, a singer, and a dancer who was active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s. Like many Black actresses of her era, she was often cast as a maid or a nurse. Biography Boyd was born in Kingston, Tennessee, to Creed Boyd and Rachel Finley. The family moved to Nebraska soon after she was born. Boyd relocated to Los Angeles as a young adult, where she found work a chorus girl at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, a popular Black nightclub in Culver City. She was part of a group known as the Creole Cuties. Around the same time, she began appearing in Hollywood films, working regularly throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She appeared in more than 200 films. On Broadway, Boyd appeared in ''The Duchess Misbehaves'' (1946). Selected filmography * ''Lydia Bailey'' (1952) * ''Skirts Ahoy!'' (1952) * ''The Harlem Globetrotters'' (1951) * '' I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.'' (1951) * ''The Jackie Robinson Story'' (1950) * '' Pinky'' (1949) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Moore
Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She was the fifth black actor to be nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress category at a time when only one black actor, Hattie McDaniel in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939), had won an Oscar. Her most famous role was as Annie Johnson in the film ''Imitation of Life (1959 film), Imitation of Life'' (1959). Early life and career Juanita Moore was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Ella (née Dunn) and Harrison Moore. She had seven siblings (six sisters and one brother). Her family moved in the Great Migration (African American), Great Migration to Los Angeles, where she was raised. Moore first performed as a dancer, part of a chorus line at the Cotton Club before becoming a film Extra (acting), extra while working in theater. Moore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toussaint L'Ouverture
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (, ) also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought and allied with Spanish forces against Saint-Domingue Royalists, then joined with Republican France, becoming Governor-General-for-life of Saint-Domingue, and lastly fought against Bonaparte's republican troops. As a revolutionary leader, Louverture displayed military and political acumen that helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement. Along with Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Louverture is now known as one of the "Fathers of Haiti". Toussaint Louverture was born as a slave in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now known as Haiti. He was a devout Catholic, and was manumitted as an ''affranchi'' (ex-slave) before the French Revolution, identifying as a Creole for the greater part of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Renard
Ken Renard (1905–1993) was an actor in the United States. He had roles in ''Strange Fruit'' on stage in 1945, the film '' True Grit'' (1969) and the television series ''Robert Montgomery Presents'' (1950–1957). He was born on November 19, 1905, in Port of Spain, Trinidad as Kenneth Fitzroy Renwick. He died on November 16, 1993, in Los Angeles County, California. He portrayed Toussaint Louverture in the film ''Lydia Bailey''. He appeared on the television show '' The Name of the Game'' (1968). Filmography Film *''Sugar Hill Baby'' (1932? 1938?) *'' Murder with Music'' (1941) as Bill Smith, using parts of the film ''Mistaken Identity'' *'' Killer Diller'' (1948) as The Great Voodoo *''Lydia Bailey'' (1952) as Toussaint L'Ouverture (uncredited) *'' Something of Value'' (1957) as Karanja, father of Kimani *'' These Thousand Hills'' (1959) as Happy, the waiter (uncredited) *'' Home From the Hill'' (1960) as Chauncey (Hunnicutt butler) *'' Papa's Delicate Condition'' (1963) as Walte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Wright (actor)
William Henry Wright (March 26, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American actor.Obituary '' Variety'', June 27, 1962, p. 52. He was frequently cast in Westerns and as a curmudgeonly and argumentative old man. Over the course of his career, Wright appeared in more than 200 film and television roles. Career Born in San Francisco, Wright worked as a newspaperman before beginning a career in show business. He started his acting career in vaudeville and later moved to the stage. Wright also worked in radio, appearing in more than 5,000 radio programs. His radio performances have included Zeb on ''Al Pearce and His Gang'', George Honeywell in '' My Little Margie'', Mahoney on '' Glamour Manor'' and the title character, Ephraim Tutt in '' The Amazing Mr. Tutt''. He also guest starred on radio shows, such as '' The Man Called X'', '' The Charlotte Greenwood Show'' and ''The Jack Benny Program'' (he later appeared on the television version of the program). Wright made his west coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Bonaparte
Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (, ; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802. Later, Pauline married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba. Early life Maria Paola Buonaparte, the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Maria Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France, was born on 20 October 1780 in Ajaccio, Corsica. She was popularly k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
Adeline De Walt Reynolds (September 19, 1862 – August 13, 1961) was an American character actress who made her film debut at the age of 78 playing the grandmother of James Stewart in '' Come Live with Me'' (1941). She continued to act in films and numerous television series until her death. Early life Adeline De Walt was born in Vinton, Iowa, one of 10 children during the American Civil War. One of her earliest memories was of Union soldiers returning from the war. She had wanted to be an actress since she was five years old, but her father - Jonathan DeWalt, a farmer - was opposed. As an 18 year old she claimed to be 20 to get a hometown teaching job. It was a difficult teaching assignment, and had been refused by several other teachers, but she eventually gained the support of the children and their families. After learning that her male colleagues earned more money than she did, and the school board refused to pay her the same rate, she left. Raising a family She marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leclerc (general, Born 1772)
Divisional general, Divisional-General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (17 March 1772 – 2 November 1802) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. He was the husband of Pauline Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon. In 1801, Leclerc was appointed commander of the Saint-Domingue expedition with the goal of restoring French rule and slavery in the colony of Saint-Domingue and deposing Governor-General Toussaint Louverture. The expedition defeated Louverture's army and deported him to France, but Leclerc died of yellow fever after the colony's Black population revolted against French rule. Early life Charles Leclerc was born on 17 March 1772 in Pontoise, Île-de-France. In 1791, he volunteered to join the French Royal Army, serving as a second lieutenant in the Chasseur#Chasseurs à cheval, 12th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval before becoming an aide-de-camp to Jean François Cornu de La Poype. Leclerc remained loyal to the French First Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Marshall (actor)
William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director and opera singer. He played the title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic ''Blacula'' and its 1973 sequel '' Scream Blacula Scream''. He has appeared as the King of Cartoons on the 1980s television show ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'', as Dr. Richard Daystrom on the television series ''Star Trek'', and as Thomas Bowers on the television series ''Bonanza''. He was 6‘5” (1.96 m) tall and was known for his bass voice. Biography Early life Marshall was born in Gary, Indiana, to Vereen Marshall, a dentist, and Thelma ( Edwards). He attended New York University as an art student but transferred to the Actors Studio to study theater. He studied at the American Theatre Wing and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Career Marshall made his Broadway debut in 1944 in '' Carmen Jones''. In 1950, he understudied Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in the Broadway production of ''Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
