The Black and White Minstrel Show is a British light entertainment show on BBC prime-time television that ran from 1958 to 1978. The weekly variety show...
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and black-only minstrel groups that formed and toured. Minstrel shows stereotyped blacks as dimwitted, lazy, buffoonish, cowardly, superstitious, and...
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Blackface (redirect from Blackface minstrel)
surviving longer than in the U.S.; The Black and White Minstrel Show on television lasted until 1978. In both the United States and Britain, blackface was...
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the BBC's long-running variety series The Black and White Minstrel Show. Along with bass Tony Mercer and baritone Dai Francis, Boulter was one of the...
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Doctor Who The Black and White Minstrel Show, a British television series (1958–78) Black & White (video game), by Lionhead Studios Black & White: Creature...
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List of entertainers who performed in blackface (category Blackface minstrel performers)
lead singer of the long-running Black and White Minstrel Show on the BBC: 248 Zach Braff, in the Scrubs episodes "My Friend the Doctor" and "My Chopped...
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Karen Kay (TV personality) (section Life and career)
around Dimapur and Palel in 1944. Kay made her professional debut in the Black and White Minstrel Show, Blackpool, when she was 16, adopting the stage name...
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British singer. He started work in show business at age 18, and was a choir boy in The Black and White Minstrel Show. He joined Brotherhood of Man for...
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mainly with The Black and White Minstrel Show. Formed in the early 1950s by Leslie Roberts, a well-known cabaret show producer, who also created The Silhouettes...
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George Mitchell (Scottish musician) (category Television show creators)
Scottish musician, best known for having devised the long-running The Black and White Minstrel Show. He was born in Falkirk, Scotland. Mitchell's grandfather...
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Kenneth Connor (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
in the BBC radio comedy Parsley Sidings. On television, he appeared in The Black and White Minstrel Show, as Whatsisname Smith in the children's show Rentaghost...
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Sheila Bernette (category Singers from the City of Westminster)
regular on variety shows such as the Good Old Days and The Black and White Minstrel Show and appeared in the Royal Variety Performance show of 1970. Bernette...
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show for later seasons, but Arrol remained active in television work during the 1960s, hosting shows including The Black and White Minstrel Show and the...
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Robert Luff (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
theatrical agent and producer. He was most notable for producing the stage version of The Black and White Minstrel Show, and being the former agent of...
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Anna Dawson (category People educated at the Elmhurst School for Dance)
is married to former Black and White Minstrel Show soloist John Boulter. "Unsung Heroines". musical-theatre.net. Archived from the original on 21 July...
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Don Maclean (category Blackface minstrel performers)
early in his career he was a comedy compère of the BBC television series The Black and White Minstrel Show. On Crackerjack, Maclean usually performed a...
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Keith Harris (ventriloquist) (category Reality show winners)
creation, Orville the Duck, came about after he saw some green fur lying around backstage at a performance of The Black and White Minstrel Show in Bristol....
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Golliwog (category Anti-African and anti-black slurs)
figures. The doll is characterised by jet black skin, eyes rimmed in white, exaggerated red lips and frizzy hair, based on the blackface minstrel tradition...
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Dai Francis (singer) (category Blackface minstrel performers)
appear in The Black and White Minstrel Show when it made its television debut in 1958. Francis generally appeared at the beginning of the show to announce...
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include Tonight at the London Palladium (1955–1969), The Black and White Minstrel Show (1958–1978), The White Heather Club (1958–1968) and Royal Variety Performance...
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1973, when The Black and White Minstrel Show was still a high-rating BBC fixture). Despite this, the film’s rich combination of cynicism and romanticism...
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Victoria Palace Theatre (category Theatres in the City of Westminster)
and Naughton and Gold. The long-running Black and White Minstrel Show played through the 1960s until 1972. In 1982, a production of The Little Foxes,...
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Lulu and The Price of Fame starring Georgie Fame and Alan Price in 1969, and series such as Sez Les, The Black and White Minstrel Show, and The Goodies...
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Musical theatre (redirect from Musical show)
(1960) ran for 2,618 performances, but the long-run champion of the decade was The Black and White Minstrel Show (1962), which played for 4,344 performances...
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Stan Stennett (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
of the regular comedy guests on The Black and White Minstrel Show. In the 1990s Stennett presented a country music show on Pontypridd Community Radio Station...
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Stereotypes of African Americans (redirect from Stereotypes of Black Americans)
over time. The first major displays of stereotypes of African Americans were minstrel shows. Beginning in the nineteenth century, they used White actors who...
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Female impersonation (section Minstrel shows)
dances, and "wench" songs. Black people themselves were largely excluded from being performers as at this point in history. Blackface in minstrel shows emerged...
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Leslie Crowther (category English game show hosts)
in the 1950s, with appearances as presenter of such programmes as the Billy Cotton Band Show and The Black and White Minstrel Show, and later the long-running...
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the show could only be heard and not seen, it retained the conventional format of minstrel shows, with a "white" compere or "Interlocutor", and "black" comedy...
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George Chisholm (musician) (category The Goon Show)
shows including Band Wagon, It's That Man Again and Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh. He joined The Black and White Minstrel Show in 1961 for a decade, and appeared...
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