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    Oscar Polk (December 25, 1899 – January 4, 1949) was an American actor. He portrayed the enslaved man Pork in the film Gone with the Wind (1939). His most...
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    characters. It starred Rex Ingram (in several roles, including "De Lawd"), Oscar Polk, and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. It was based on the 1928 novel Ol' Man...
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    (credited as Stuart Tarleton) The house servants Hattie McDaniel as Mammy Oscar Polk as Pork Butterfly McQueen as Prissy In the fields Victor Jory as Jonas...
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    enhanced light. In The Green Pastures (1936), Gabriel is portrayed by Oscar Polk. In Heaven Only Knows (1947), Gabriel was portrayed by William Farnum...
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  • Lucy Ann Polk (1927–2011), American jazz singer Makai Polk (born 2001), American football player Oscar Polk (1899–1949), American actor Ron Polk (born 1944)...
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  • Hedda Hopper as Aunt Henrietta Beresford Victor Kilian as Mathias Widgeon Oscar Polk as Salt Meat Raymond Hatton as Master Shipwright Lane Chandler as Sam...
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    The General / Rev. Green "Bubbles" John W. Sublett as Domino Johnson Oscar Polk as The Deacon / Fleetfoot Mantan Moreland as First Idea Man Willie Best...
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    was the first African-American man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera Oscar Polk, Broadway actor who played a slave in Gone with the Wind Rodney E. Slater...
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    Edna Mae Baker. Among its stars are Ethel Moses, a Micheaux regular, and Oscar Polk, best known for his appearance in Gone with the Wind two years later....
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  • George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York. "Past George Polk Award...
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    Green Pastures Transcribed for BBC broadcast Cast: Daniel L. Haynes, Oscar Polk, Georgette Harvey, Amanda Randolph, Edna Thomas, Viola Dean, Canada Lee...
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  • Fletcher as Wilbur Ashley Clyde Cook as Ted Leigh Whipper as Jim Fish Oscar Polk as Umeela Darby Jones as Darby Richard Ainley as Worthing In 1930, Gordon...
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    80 LaSalle Street is named after him. Ivy V. Polk, actress, widow of Gone with the Wind actor Oscar Polk, is a resident of Morningside Gardens since the...
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  • had produced during the 1920s. A live-action black janitor, played by Oscar Polk, best known for his portrayal as the servant "Pork" in the 1939 film Gone...
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  • Polk County Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Bartow, Florida, United States. The district serves Polk County. Before 1965, Polk County...
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    1939, again with the Rhythmettes, with Louis Armstrong, Moms Mabley, Oscar Polk and others, she sang and danced in the show Swingin' the Dream. List of...
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  • Sneden Aleta Freel as Marjorie Gray Walter C. Kelly as Solomon Fitzmaurice Oscar Polk as Mark Robert Shayne as Eddie Wister Shepperd Strudwick as Alan McClean...
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    Lakeland, Florida (category Cities in Polk County, Florida)
    is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. Located along I-4 east of Tampa and west of Orlando, it is the most populous city in Polk County. As of...
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    10, 2014 – via National Archives. Stone, Natalie (February 28, 2016). "Oscars: Joe Biden Introduces Lady Gaga for Performance of 'Til It Happens to You'"...
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    Oscar Wilder Underwood (May 6, 1862 – January 25, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from Alabama, and also a candidate for President of the...
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  • Whigham as Jim Dunlop Marin Ireland as Mrs. Polk Owen Teague as Randy Anne Hathaway as Rebecca Sam Nivola as Lee Polk Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Mrs. Murray Tonye...
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    African-American actors with Hollywood careers beyond race films had smaller roles: Oscar Polk, who was best known for playing the servant Pork in Gone with the Wind...
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    Bartow, Florida (category Cities in Polk County, Florida)
    Bartow (/ˈbɑːrtoʊ/ BAR-toh) is a city and the county seat of Polk County, Florida, United States. Founded in 1851 as Fort Blount, the city was renamed...
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    and had his basic combat training and advanced individual training at Fort Polk, Louisiana (now Fort Johnson). Studi volunteered for active service and went...
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    Metronomy (redirect from Oscar Cash)
    of founding member and leader Joseph Mount (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Oscar Cash (keyboards, backing vocals, guitar, saxophone), Anna Prior (drums,...
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    Polk, Snyder, and a half-dozen FBI agents storm the parlor. Polk tells Hooker he is free to go; shocked at the betrayal, Gondorff shoots Hooker. Polk...
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  • an angelic Stepin Fetchit with enormous lips—probably a reference to Oscar Polk's performance as Gabriel in The Green Pastures— and orders him to rectify...
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    16 World's Champ Joseph Henabery (director); Jack Dempsey, June Gale, Oscar Polk & David Burns, Eddie Roberts © February 24 Fifi Roy Mack (director); Vivienne...
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  • August 13  Gold Amanda Elmore Tessa Gobbo Elle Logan Meghan Musnicki Amanda Polk Emily Regan Lauren Schmetterling Kerry Simmonds Katelin Snyder Rowing Women's...
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  • JRTC – Joint Readiness Training Center, combat training center at Fort Polk Louisiana since 1993 (formerly at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas) that focuses on...
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