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  2. Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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    Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...

  3. Spencer Williams Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Andy on TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show and directed films including the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus.

  4. Ernestine Wade - Wikipedia

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    Ernestine began playing Sapphire Stevens in 1939, [7] [8] [9] but originally came to the Amos 'n' Andy radio show in the role of Valada Green, a lady who believed she had married Andy. [2] In her interview that is part of the documentary Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy, Wade related how she got the job with the radio show. Initially ...

  5. Ruby Dandridge - Wikipedia

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    Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 [1] – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy, in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show, in which she played Geranium.

  6. Black sitcom - Wikipedia

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    TV cast of The Amos 'n' Andy Show (1951-53). Spencer Williams (Andy), Tim Moore (Kingfish), and Alvin Childress (Amos) A Black sitcom is a sitcom that principally features Black people in its cast. Prominent Black sitcoms to date typically come from the United States with African American casts, forming a branch of African American comedy.

  7. Johnny Lee (actor) - Wikipedia

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    John Dotson Lee Jr. (July 4, 1898 - December 12, 1965) was an American singer, dancer and actor known for voicing the role of Br'er Rabbit in Disney's Song of the South (1946) [1] and as Algonquin J. Calhoun in the CBS TV and radio comedy series Amos 'n' Andy [2] in the early 1950s.

  8. Category:Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the radio sitcom Amos 'n' Andy and its adaptations. Pages in category "Amos 'n' Andy" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.

  9. Charles Correll - Wikipedia

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    The show originated on Chicago radio station WGN. From 1928 to 1960, Gosden and Correll, broadcast their program Amos 'n' Andy – again portraying Black characters – which quickly became one of the most famous and popular [3] radio series of the 1930s, nationwide. Correll voiced the character "Andy" (Andrew Hogg Brown).

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