Alec Lovejoy
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: April 28, 1893
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: April 13, 1946
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Black and Tan
Overview: Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-08
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Murder In Harlem
Overview: A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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St. Louis Blues
Overview: In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-08
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Swing!
Overview: Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Paradise in Harlem
Overview: It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is applied only role in Harlem Vaudeville. One day he is the witness of a crime and the mobster strongly advised him to leave the town...
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Moon Over Harlem
Overview: Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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God's Step Children
Overview: Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Murder on Lenox Avenue
Overview: Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge; and Pa's ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis. And hanging around is Marshall's murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it all end in someone's being killed?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Birthright
Overview: After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Birthright
Overview: A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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