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Showing posts with label 1932. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1932. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Harlem is Heaven (1932)


























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Jean Stratton, a gorgeous teenage girl, arrives in Harlem looking for work. Her talent gets her a job as a showgirl at the Acme Theater. She's soon living at a boardinghouse with the Acme's star attraction, tap dancer Bill Robinson, and his pal, "Chummy" Walker. Both men are interested in the girl, though Jean prefers the younger Chummy. "Money" Johnson, the theater owner, is actually a racketeer, and tricks Chummy into taking the fall for his crimes. Realizing with a broken heart that Jean and Chummy are right for each other, Bill goes to the police with proof of Johnson's guilt. But doing the right thing may cost bill his life...

Monday, January 22, 2018

Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932)














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A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is hit in the head with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.  

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Pie, Pie Blackbird (1932)









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A comedy short film starring Afro American musicians Nina Mae McKinney, Eubie Blake and his band, and The Nicholas Brothers.

Monday, September 5, 2016

The Veiled Aristocrats (1932)




















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John Warwick (Lorenzo Tucker), left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too can live a life as a white woman. He even goes so far as to find her a suitable white man to marry. Unfortunately, she can not get over the young black man she left back home.