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    Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. He starred in numerous...
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  • directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, and Mantan Moreland. The film was produced by Monogram Pictures, and was typical of its...
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    American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Mantan Moreland. Mantan Moreland as Washington F. E. Miller as Jefferson Arthur Ray as Professor...
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  • Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Sid Haig, Mary Mitchel, Karl Schanzer and Mantan Moreland also star. The film was released to relative obscurity, but eventually...
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    (with Mantan Moreland) as Frankie Kelly Laughing at Danger (1940) (with Mantan Moreland) as Frankie Kelly Up in the Air (1940) (with Mantan Moreland) as...
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  • was a follow-up to the horror-comedy King of the Zombies (1941) with Mantan Moreland reprising his role as Jeff and Madame Sul-Te-Wan returning as a different...
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  • (1920–2009) George Montgomery (1916–2000) Robert Montgomery (1904–1981) Mantan Moreland (1902–1973) Frank Morgan (1890–1949) Zero Mostel (1915–1977) Paul Muni...
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    Toler; the comic byplay of Young and Moreland relieved Toler of much of the action. According to Mantan Moreland, Toler gallantly refused to leave the...
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  • Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran. Written by Herman Raucher, it tells the story of an...
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  • Anise Boyer Charles Sidney Gilpin Adelaide Hall Nina Mae McKinney Mantan Moreland Krigwa Players Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson Nicholas Brothers Paul Robeson...
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  • baseball player Lesley Moreland, English author whose daughter was murdered in 1990 Mantan Moreland (1902–1973), American actor Marc Moreland (1958–2002), American...
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    116. Feinberg, p. 163. Price, Michael (2007). Mantan the Funnyman: The Life and Times of Mantan Moreland. Midnight Marquee Press. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-1-88766-470-7...
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  • with assistant, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), take on the case. Roland Winters as Charlie Chan Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown Keye Luke as Lee...
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    to Mantan Moreland, his on-stage counterpart is named "Mantan". Biography portal Film portal United States portal Stepin Fetchit Mantan Moreland Fred...
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  • film features an African American cast including Mantan Moreland in a dramatic role. Mantan Moreland Josephine Pearson Betty Treadville Jessie Coles Grayson...
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  • drama film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Marcia Mae Jones and Jackie Moran in a story about a trucking company...
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  • of the greatest all-black jazz shorts ever made." The plot features Mantan Moreland and Flournoy Miller as two watchmen who hear singing from a haunted...
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  • stars Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates and Mantan Moreland. The film was released on December 9, 1938, by RKO Pictures. A young...
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  • Mantan Messes Up is a 1946 film produced in the United States. It stars Mantan Moreland. The film was directed by Sam Newfield. The film was produced...
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  • television appeared as well, including Henry Fonda and veteran comedians Mantan Moreland and Moms Mabley as Kincaid's feuding uncle and aunt. The show's brass-heavy...
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  • American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter. The film is also known as Charlie Chan in the Scarlet...
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    comedian Mantan Moreland for a stage act, replacing Ben Carter as Moreland's dapper straight man. One of their bits was an old routine that Moreland and Carter...
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  • Playboy Playmate Mighty Sam McClain, soul blues singer and songwriter Mantan Moreland, actor and comic of the 1930s and 1940s Jesse Pearson, actor and screenwriter;...
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    Howard Bretherton and starring Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds and Mantan Moreland. It was produced and released by Monogram Pictures. It was remade in...
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  • by Derwin Abrahams and starring Roland Winters, Virginia Dale and Mantan Moreland. It featured Winters in his second appearance as Charlie Chan, having...
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    21–26). It had an all-Black cast, including Earle Hyman as Vladimir, Mantan Moreland as Estragon, Rex Ingram as Pozzo and Geoffrey Holder as Lucky. This...
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    Mantan Moreland, the scared, wide-eyed manservant of Charlie Chan. Perry had actually played a manservant in the Charlie Chan series before Moreland in...
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  • Collins and Ray Taylor. It co-starred Lyle Talbot, Robert Lowery and Mantan Moreland. Deposits of "Nitrolene", a high-energy fuel, have been discovered...
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  • Crawford in Dance, Fools, Dance Doris Day Stepin Fetchit Willie Best Mantan Moreland Clinton Rosemond J. Edgar Hoover as himself, archival footage Kenneth...
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  • Number One Daughter (Frances Chan) and an easily spooked chauffeur (Mantan Moreland). Mr. William Bonner is murdered in the middle of a seance with a total...
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