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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Micheaux shot much of Veiled Aristocrats at his mother-in-law's home in Montclair, New Jersey. [1] Lorenzo Tucker , who played John Walden, was a popular leading man of the race film genre. He was dubbed the "black Valentino " because of his striking good looks. [ 5 ]
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]
Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow , the revival of the Ku Klux Klan , the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and ...
She appeared in leading roles in two race films by the pioneering African-American director Oscar Micheaux: The Homesteader (1919) and The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920). Iris Hall was born on 1892 in Barbados. Her family emigrated to the United States when Hall was a teenager. She worked in Harlem as a singer, dancer, and beautician. [1]