Estelle Evans
Nacimiento : 1906-10-01, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
Muerte : 1985-07-20
Historia
Estelle Rolle Evans was a Bahamian American stage and screen actress.
"The Half-Pint Flask"
Trilogy of films about race and culture in the Deep South from the end of World War I to the civil rights protests of the 1960's. All three stories deal with fear and isolation, and the role of faith in the lives of those who venture alone into what is unknown around them.
Francine
El cadáver de una mujer desnuda aparece en un río de Nueva York. Es solo el principio de las siguientes víctimas de un psicópata tan inteligente como sanguinario. La policía tiene que recurrir a un vidente para que intente averiguar su identidad y las de las próximas victimas para evitar los asesinatos, pero lo cierto es que no sera tan fácil. El terror se apoderara de la ciudad...
1st Maid
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.
Mother
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.
Alberta Ballard
Narra la historia de un par de estafadores que intentan ayudar a unos jóvenes con problemas.
Herself
A documentary made on the set of "The Learning Tree." Narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the cast and crew.
Sarah
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
Calpurnia
En la época de la Gran Depresión, en una población sureña, Atticus Finch es un abogado que defiende a un hombre negro acusado de haber violado a una mujer blanca. Aunque la inocencia del hombre resulta evidente, el veredicto del jurado es tan previsible que ningún abogado aceptaría el caso, excepto Atticus Finch, el ciudadano más respetable de la ciudad. Su compasiva y valiente defensa de un inocente le granjea enemistades, pero le otorga el respeto y la admiración de sus dos hijos, huérfanos de madre. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Harper Lee.
The mother
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
Mrs. Asterbilt
After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.
(uncredited)
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
