That's Black Entertainment

That's Black Entertainment

"That's Black Entertainment" is a 1990 documentary film with African-American performers and the clips from black films from 1929-57.

Many entertainers, along with their musical numbers, and the film they starred in, include:
*Paul Robeson (Song of Freedom)
*Bessie Smith (St. Louis Blues)
*Eubie Blake and The Nicholas Brothers (Pie-Pie Blackbird)
*Lena Horne (Boogie Woogie Dream)
*Nat 'King' Cole (Killer Diller)
*Sammy Davis, Jr. (Rufus Jones for President)
*Cab Calloway (Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party)
*Ethel Waters (Carib Gold)

Not only musical clips were shown, but dramatic clips as well, like Murder in Harlem (1935), Juke Joint (1947), and Souls of Sin (1949).

It also included are clips from white films stereotyping blacks, including D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and a blackfaced Bing Crosby in Crooner's Holiday (1934).

Celebrity appearances

*Billie Allen
*Albert Ammons
*Eubie Blake
*Clarence Brooks
*Cab Calloway
*Nat 'King' Cole
*Bing Crosby
*Sammy Davis, Jr.
*Francine Everett
*Stepin Fetchit
*William Greaves
*Alfred Hawkins
*Lena Horne
*Pete Johnson
*July Jones
*Clarence Muse
*Fayard Nicholas
*Harold Nicholas
*Jesse Owens
*Paul Robeson
*Frank 'Sugar Chile' Robinson
*Bessie Smith
*Ethel Waters
*Spencer Williams

External links

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