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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.
She married Herbert Hollon and left her acting career behind to start a family as Donessa Dorothy Hollon. She had two sons and several grandchildren. [5] She lived with her husband, a building superintendent, in New York and New Jersey before moving to Florida in 1978. [1]
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 ...
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]
A ctor Ryan O’Neal, famed for his Oscar-nominated role in the 1970 romance film Love Story, has died aged 82. O’Neal’s son, Patrick, announced the actor’s death in a moving Instagram post.
God's Step Children is a 1938 American drama film directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Jacqueline Lewis. [1] The film is inspired by a combination of elements shared from two previously released Hollywood productions, Imitation of Life and These Three .