• Darktown Revue (1931) is an 18-minute American Pre-Code short film by Oscar Micheaux, his first short venture into sound film. The dances and ensembles...
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  • The Darktown Follies were a series of musical revues staged in Harlem at the Lafayette Theatre from 1913 through 1916. All of the revue's creators were...
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  • Steve Hackett Darktown Comics, a series of racist-caricature prints produced by Currier and Ives Darktown Revue, a 1931 film Darktown Strutters, a 1975...
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    [Lost] Easy Street (1930) [Lost] A Daughter of the Congo (1930) [Lost] Darktown Revue (1931)[Survives] The Exile (1931)[Survives] Veiled Aristocrats (1932)...
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    Children (1938) Birthright (1939) The Betrayal (1948) As producer: Darktown Revue (1931) Murder in Harlem (1935) Birthright (1939) As miscellaneous crew:...
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  • Dangerous Minds Daniel Payne College (historical) Dap greeting Dark Girls Darktown Revue Darlings of Rhythm A Daughter of the Congo Davis v. County School Board...
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  • "The Darktown Revue", directed by African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. In 1932, he continued at the Lafayette Theater in the comedy revue "Magnolia...
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    co-directed and staged the ensemble segments of The Exile and the short film Darktown Revue with Oscar Micheaux. Harper staged for Broadway Hot Chocolates at the...
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  • Samuel D. Waymon Restored by S. Torriano Berry. (BLU-RAY ONLY) The Darktown Revue Oscar Micheaux 1931 18 min. The Exile Oscar Micheaux 1931 78 min. Hot...
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    first talking picture, The Darktown Revue. After a disagreement with Lew Leslie, Moore starred in two unsuccessful Broadway revues for other producers, Fast...
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  • Birth, Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940, Darktown Revue, Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA, Eleven P.M., The Exile, The Flying Ace...
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  • to Live (1932) Amor in Montagna (1932) Love's Interlude (1932) The Darktown Revue (1931) The Exile (1931) The House of Secrets (1929) The Mad Marriage...
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  • third of the 20th century; including "Some of These Days" and "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball". He composed "Some of These Days" at the Pekin Theatre...
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    Jean Sablon (section Revues)
    starred. The final version conserves merely his interpretation of the song "Darktown Strutters Ball". In the movie capital, he appeared at the Trocadero. He...
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    Yip Yip Yaphank (category Revues)
    "Floradora Sextette" "Love Interest" "Dreams of a Soldier" "Some Boy' "Darktown Strutters' Ball" "Waters of Venice" "Baby" "White's Pet" "Don't Know the...
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  • credited roles in Truck Turner (1974) and Darktown Strutters (1975). After the dissolution of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1976, Richardson recorded an album...
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    jazz recordings in 1917, when the Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded "Darktown Strutters' Ball" and "Indiana". Originally simply called "jazz", the music...
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    after Victor recorded two of the band's supposedly original compositions) "Darktown Strutters' Ball" and "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" as catalogue #A-2297...
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    him as being the first Black man to have a leading role in a film with Darktown Jubilee in 1914, other sources have credited actor Sam Lucas with this...
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    Okland & Chorus 1912 1570 Serenade Kotzschmar The Tollefsen Trio 1912 1571 Darktown Eccentricities Billy Golden & Joe Hughes 1912 1572 She Was Bred In Old...
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  • bootblack" Traveling musical revue by Pollock Productions, music by Donald Heywood Darktown Scandals 1927 Performer Traveling musical revue by Eddie Hunter Kilpatrick's...
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  • Works 1921–1926 in Chronological Order. Document Records: DODC-5522. "'The Darktown Follies' In My Friend From Kentucky, With Music, Book, Lyrics and Staged...
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  • thereafter, in 1913, he got the part of 'Red Cap Sam' in a musical revue called the Darktown Follies. After finishing his run with the follies, he began touring...
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    Jimmy Morgan "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" w.m. Shelton Brooks "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" Original...
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  • drummer Earl Palmer entered show business as a tap dancer in Cox's Darktown Scandals revue. In 1939, she was invited to participate in the Carnegie Hall concert...
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  • American Composer Series (category Revues)
    Series as of 2008 include: As Long As There’s Music (Jule Styne) - 2000 The Darktown Strutters' Ball (Shelton Brooks, Maceo Pinkard, Spencer Williams) - 2009...
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  • Dixie. This show was subsequently revised and expanded into the Darktown Follies. Darktown Follies became one of the landmark shows at the Lafayette Theater...
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    Everett, William A. and Geoffrey Holden Block. "Finding a Voice: Operetta, Revue and Musical Comedy", Sigmund Romberg, p. 63, Yale University Press, 2007...
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  • success'—most which were melodramatic. Sometimes they would perform musicals like Darktown and Shuffle Along. Some Harlem figures, like W. E. B. Du Bois, opposed...
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  • by children "In My Merry Oldsmobile" sung by Bing Crosby and children. "Darktown Strutters' Ball" sung by Linda Ware "An Apple for the Teacher" sung by...
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