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Black film stars, by Eileen Landay.
LIBRA - Rare PN1998.A2 L33 1973 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landay, Eileen, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American motion picture actors and actresses.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 194 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Drake Publishers Inc., [1973]
- Contents:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Bert Williams
- The Birth of a Nation
- Our Gang
- Hearts in Dixie and Hallelujah!
- Stepin Fetchit
- Oscar Micheaux and the Black Independents
- Paul Robeson
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
- Louise Beavers
- The Green Pastures
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
- Gone with the Wind
- Hattie McDaniel
- Butterfly McQueen
- Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather
- Lena Horne
- Ethel Waters
- The Racial Injustice Films: Home of the Brave, Pinky, Lost Boundaries, Intruder in the Dust
- Sidney Poitier
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Harry Belafonte
- Carmen Jones
- Sammy Davis
- Diahann Carroll
- Porgy and Bess
- Eartha Kitt
- Ossie Davis
- Ruby Dee
- James Earl Jones
- Godfrey Cambridge
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Diana Sands
- Jim Brown
- Raymond St. Jacques
- Calvin Lockhart
- Gordon Parks
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Richard Roundtree
- Ron O'Neal
- Diana Ross
- Cicely Tyson.
- Notes:
- "Jacket design by Elaine Gongora."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-191) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has schedule of films to be shown by the Black Film Institute of the University of the District of Columbia laid in.
- Banks Collection copy has articles on Box Office Breakthroughs from the Washington Post laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0877495084
- OCLC:
- 605842
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