Fredi Washington
Date of Birth: 23 Dec 1903
Country: USA
Biography: A pioneering African-American actress whose fair skin and green eyes often were impediments to her showing her extraordinary acting skills. Her talent was often overlooked because of people's obsession with her race and color. In the few films in which she acted her enormous talent as an actress couldn't be hidden. Her best work was as an activist. She was the head of the Negro Actors Guild, helping black performers get a fair chance in the entertainment industry. Hopefully, people who discover
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor)
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Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island. (imdb)
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In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage. (imdb)
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The Letter was the first film version of the Somerset Maugham play of the same name. Broadway star Jeanne Eagels plays the wife of Reginald Owen, the owner of a Malayan rubber plantation. The film opens with Eagels shooting a man (Herbert Marshall) to death; she explains that the man had tried to assault her. It is assumed that the subsequent trial will go well for Eagels, who has the advantage of wealth and social position. (allrovi.com)
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1933) - Short Film
Musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party." (imdb)
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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) - Short Film
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. (imdb)
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A newspaper woman believes she has a scoop when she finds a black woman who is the mother of a white child.
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