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Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
In the mid-1930s, she began working with filmmaker Oscar Micheaux; her first film role was as "The Bronze Venus", an artist's model who is seen nearly nude on screen, in Micheaux's Temptation (1936). The pair followed that success with Underworld (1937), in which Moses plays a college student, and God's Step Children (also 1937), in which she ...
The Czar of Black Hollywood is a 2014 documentary film by Bayer Mack that chronicles the early life and career of African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951). [1] Mack conceived of and produced the film about Micheaux using Library of Congress archived footage, photos, illustrations and vintage music. [2]
It was through these acquaintances that she first met Oscar Micheaux and began starring in his films. Before that point, she had been working as a model and it was through these jobs that she made money, as Micheaux's low budget films never had the money to properly pay the actors. But, in her own words, she stated that she acted for fun and ...
Tyler Perry is Variety‘s 2020 Showman of the Year. Oscar Micheaux, the pioneering Black filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced movies from 1919 through 1948, was a one-man studio — the ...
Her parents were M. J. Russell and Robert Russell, who was a prominent newspaper editor, publisher, and politician. [3] [4] Russell and Micheaux married on March 20, 1926, in Montclair, New Jersey. [3] She began her acting career in silent film, starring in her husband's The Broken Violin (1928). She continued to act after talkies predominated.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Oscar Micheaux: 1920 73 min. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK: Oscar Micheaux 1920 59 min. Max Roach By Right of Birth: Lincoln Motion Picture Co. 1921 4 min. Donald Sosin Body and Soul: Oscar Micheaux 1925 93 min. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) Screen Snapshots: Micheaux footage 1920 1 minute