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Fredi Washington was born in 1903 in Savannah, Georgia, to Robert T. Washington, ... but "If I made Peola seem real enough to merit such statements, I consider such ...
"From Peola to Carmen: Fredi Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, and Hollywood's Portrayal of the Tragic Mulatto". In Taylor, Quintard ; Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson (eds.). African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000 .
Dorothy Black and Fredi Washington as Peola Johnson in Imitation of Life (1934) Karin Dicker and Susan Kohner as Sarah Jane Johnson in Imitation of Life (1959) Curtis Harris and Anthony Mackie as William Johnson in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) Scotty Beckett and Larry Parks as Al Jolson in The Jolson Story (1946)
Set in the 1910s at "the Shore" of New Jersey, the novel explores issues of race and class in early 20th-century United States. Bea Chipley is a quiet, mousy Atlantic City teenage girl whose mother dies, leaving her to keep house for her father (Mr. Chipley) and Benjamin Pullman, a boarder who peddles ketchup and relish on the boardwalk and sells maple syrup door-to-door.
Ouanga, also advertised as The Love Wanga, is a voodoo-themed 1936 American film starring Fredi Washington. [1] George Terwilliger wrote and directed the film. [2] The film's themes include miscegenation and it features various racial stereotypes and portrays the people who practice voodoo as primitive. [3]
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[9] [25] Black actors occasionally appeared in lead roles in horror films, such as Joel Fluellen's role of Arobi in the 1957 film Monster from Green Hell or Georgette Harvey's role of Mandy in the 1934 film Chloe, Love Is Calling You, or in voodoo films like Ouanga (1936), which starred Fredi Washington as the mistress of a plantation owner ...
A Virginia family of four who dedicated their lives to figure skating and each other were among the victims who died in Wednesday's devastating plane crash near Reagan National Airport.. Business ...