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2. Category:African-American musical drama films - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "African-American musical drama films" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

3. Category:African-American musical films - Wikipedia

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   African-American musical drama films (20 P) Pages in category "African-American musical films" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.

4. Carmen Jones (film) - Wikipedia

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   Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film featuring an African American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II , from the 1943 stage musical of the same name , set to the music of ...

5. African-American musical theater - Wikipedia

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   The African Grove Theatre opened in New York City in 1821. It was subjected to harassment and intimidation, eventually closing. [citation needed]Before the late 1890s, the image portrayed of African Americans on Broadway was a "secondhand vision of black life created by European-American performers."

6. Polly (film) - Wikipedia

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   Polly is a 1989 American made-for-television musical film adapted from the book Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter featuring an all African-American cast (with the exception of Celeste Holm). It was directed and choreographed by Debbie Allen , starring Keshia Knight Pulliam , Phylicia Rashad and also featured the final performance of actress ...

7. Ebony Parade - Wikipedia

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   Ebony Parade is a 1947 American musical compilation film made from footage of African-American performers. [1] The three-reel film featured jazz music from many acts (usually from soundies) with interstitial segments featuring Mantan Moreland as a comedic magician. [2] Advertised as including 20 great stars, it was an Astor Pictures release.

8. In Dahomey - Wikipedia

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   In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy is a landmark 1903 American musical comedy described by theatre historian Gerald Bordman as "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." [2] It features music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. [3]

9. Hallelujah (film) - Wikipedia

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   Full film. Hallelujah is a 1929 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical directed by King Vidor, and starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney.. Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes), and his relationship with the seductive Chick (McKinney), Hallelujah was one of the first films with an all-African American cast ...