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Canada Lee

출생 : 1907-03-03, Manhattan, New York, US

사망 : 1952-05-09

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Canada Lee (born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata; March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952) was an American professional boxer and then an actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. After careers as a jockey, boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project, including the 1936 production of Macbeth adapted and directed by Orson Welles. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Lee was blacklisted and died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He advanced the African American tradition in theatre pioneered by such actors as Paul Robeson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Canada Lee , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

Stephen Kumalo (archive footage)

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the campaign to bring him down, looks at the role of HUAC, J. Edgar Hoover and of journalists such as Ed Sullivan, and ends with a tribute to Canada Lee. Throughout are interviews with men and women who were there, including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more tool to maintain Jim Crow and to keep down African-Americans.

Cry, the Beloved Country

Stephen Kumalo

In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

Lost Boundaries

Lt. 'Dixie' Thompson

A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the more prejudiced neighbors demand their expulsion from the community.

육체와 영혼

Ben Chaplin

유태인인 주인공이 프로모터와 악녀의 계략에도 불구하고 난간을 극복하고 결국 월드챔프에 오른다는 권선징악적인 스토리

구명 보트

Joe

독일 잠수함의 어뢰공격을 받은 여객선, 생존자들은 파편과 시체들을 헤치며 구명선에 하나, 둘씩 오른다. 그들은 인기 작가를 비롯해 좌익선원, 간호사, 백만장자, 흑인 집사, 선박 무전기사, 영국부인, 부상을 입은 선원 등 각기 신분과 나라가 다른 사람들이다. 이들이 생존의 기쁨과 재회에 들떠 있을 때, 침몰한 U-보트의 독일 병사가 이 배에 오르게 된다. 생존자들은 그를 받아들일 것에 대해 옥신각신 논쟁을 벌이지만 폭풍으로 배가 뒤집히려는 것을 막아내는 그를 신뢰하고 배를 맡기게 된다. 사실 그는 나치의 해군장교로 구명선을 원래의 코스에서 이탈시켜 독일 보급선으로 끌고 가려는 것이다. 그러나 생존자들 중에 한 사람이 마침내 이 사실을 눈치를 채면서 구명선은 죽음의 향로로 치닫게 되는데.

Henry Browne, Farmer

Narrator

Documentary short film dramatizing the efforts of a black farmer and his family to help the American war effort by increasing production.

Keep Punching

Speedy Joe Williams (Henry's Trainer)

Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion, who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father and Fanny Singleton, his sweetheart.