Sammy Gardiner

Movies

Swing!
Sammy, Gregory's Assistant
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
God's Step Children
Tap Dancer
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.