Leigh Whipper
Nacimiento : 1876-10-29, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Muerte : 1975-07-26
Historia
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Leigh Rollin Whipper (October 29, 1876 – July 26, 1975) was an American actor on the stage and in motion pictures. He was the first African American to join the Actors' Equity Association, and one of the founders of the Negro Actors Guild of America. He is best known for creating the role of Crooks in the original Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, which he reprised in the 1939 film version.
Educated at Howard University Law School, he left in 1895 and never practiced as a lawyer. Without any dramatic training, he made his first Broadway appearance in Georgia Minstrels. His first film role was in the 1920 silent film The Symbol of the Unconquered.
During the Second World War, Whipper was a member of the steering committee of Negro Division the Hollywood Victory Committee.
Doosy
An orphaned teen gets involved with some chain-gang convicts.
Mr. Carlisle
Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.
Uncle Gabe
The swamp folk of the deep Okefenokee live a brutal primitive life untouched by modern times - they support themselves by hunting alligators and selling them to the outside world. Jeff returns home from college with an engineering degree and dreams of bringing modern medical care and education to the swamps. He is immediately confronted by his old boyhood rival, "Gator-Bait" Blair, who thinks things are just fine the way the are. "Gator" whips the ignorant locals into a frenzy of fear and resistance. When Jeff is unintimidated by their threats, Blair sets out to stop his plans once and for all - with a rifle.
George
Una mujer decide casarse con un hombre de negocios del que está totalmente enamorada. Sin embargo, tras la boda, empieza a sospechar del oscuro pasado de su esposo, un hombre perverso y lleno de maldad. La misteriosa desaparición del hermano de su marido será el punto de partida de una larga investigación...
Nate (Uncredited)
La hermosa Joan Kenwood no puede superar la muerte de su marido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Periodista de profesión, Joan tiene obsesivamente presente la imagen de su difunto esposo en todos los aspectos de su vida. El simpático ex soldado Jim Cameron la persigue con la esperanza, contra toda lógica, de que finalmente olvide a su marido y le preste su atención a él.
Alistair
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Old Ben
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
Haile Selassie (uncredited)
El empresario Joseph E. Davies es nombrado por el presidente Roosevelt embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Unión Soviética para que averigüe cuáles son las intenciones de este país respecto a la inminente Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). El embajador se llevará algunas sorpresas en una nación que pocos conocen realmente.
Jim Fish
Harry Witzel administra una plantación de caucho perdida en una selva africana. Recibe con poco entusiasmo a su nuevo ayudante, Mr Langford, con la certeza de que éste no soportará la vida en la plantación. A pesar de las advertencias de Witzel, el recién llegado sucumbirá a los encantos de Tondelayo, una hermosa, a la par que mezquina, nativa.
Sparks (uncredited)
El asesinato de un ranchero rompe la aparente tranquilidad de un pueblo del oeste americano. Ausente el sheriff, los hombres del pueblo deciden formar una partida para encontrar a los culpables.
Rango
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
Uncle Josh
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Morales
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
Momba
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
Scarface
Crosby es un promotor de barraca de feria algo golferas que engaña a los espectadores haciéndoles creer que Bob Hope es un prodigio de la naturaleza. Ambos marchan hasta Zanzíbar, donde encontrarán a una guapa nativa y buscarán una mina de diamantes. Entre sus momentos más surrealistas destaca el de Bob Hope luchando contra un gorila en plena jungla.
Ezechial
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Kezeye
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
Crooks
Años 30. Adaptación de la novela de John Steinbeck “De ratones y hombres” sobre la América de la Gran Depresión. Los protagonistas son dos amigos en paro, uno de ellos un retrasado mental, que son contratados para trabajar en un rancho.
Tugi - an Indian Fakir
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.
Micheaux coloca en el centro de su melodrama a una mulata que sufre el linchamiento de su familia y está a punto de ser violada por un terrateniente sureño. En realidad, la narrativa principal se ocupa de los esfuerzos de la protagonista, Sylvia, por encontrar financiación en Boston para la escuela sureña en la que trabaja. Aparte de los amoríos varios, y de una subtrama gangsteril, el núcleo de la película es el tema racial.
