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Joan Mary Waller Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 28 February 1987) was an English actress. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She played Sibella in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, and also appeared in The Man in the White Suit, Young Wives' Tale (both 1951), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Stage Struck (1958), Tom Jones (1963) and Little ...
Life of the Party (1920) Are All Men Alike? (1920) The Dollar-a-Year Man (1921) Sacred and Profane Love (1921) Don't Call Me Little Girl (1921) Love Never Dies (1921) To the Last Man (1923) Leap Year (1924) The Flame of the Yukon (1926) [22] The King of Kings (1927)
One of five children, Hooker was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Samuel Hooker and Anita Hooker (née Stigger). [7] [8] [9] The family was living in the Greenwood District of Tulsa on May 31, 1921, when a group of white men carrying torches entered their home and began destroying their belongings, including her sister's piano and her father's record player.
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June 15, 1921: Bessie Coleman becomes first licensed black female pilot June 1, 1921: Greenwood, the African-American business and residential section of Tulsa, is burned down by white rioters; at least 21 black and nine white residents killed in rioting June 5, 1921: Laura Bromwell becomes first female stunt pilot to be killed in a crash
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Charlotte Greenwood was known for being a very limber performer. lithograph poster for Greenwood's follow up Letty play, Linger Longer Letty, 1919. Charlotte Greenwood in Down Argentine Way (1940) Frances Charlotte Greenwood (June 25, 1890 – December 28, 1977) was an American actress and dancer.
By 1921, Gurley owned more than one hundred properties in Greenwood and had an estimated net worth between $500,000 and $1 million (between $6.8 million and $13.6 million in 2018 dollars). [ 1 ] Gurley's prominence and wealth were short lived, and his position as a sheriff's deputy did not protect him during the race massacre .