Evelyn Preer
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Georgia Rose
Overview: Musical film with an all-black cast.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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Within Our Gates
Overview: Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-12
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The Brute
Overview: The brute is a gambler,boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman, who is forced into marriage with him for money after her original fiance is thought dead. When that man returns, he attempts to rescue her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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The Homesteader
Overview: Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-02
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Ladies of the Big House
Overview: A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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The Framing of the Shrew
Overview: Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to eat anything she cooks him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-27
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Melancholy Dame
Overview: A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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The Lady Fare
Overview: "Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious flirtations with her." He gets madder and "badder" as the story gets "hummier" and funnier, while smooth, suave Florian Slappey gets mixed up in all kinds of complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-28
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The Conjure Woman
Overview: Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Devil's Disciple
Overview: Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies. She makes good, and altho' elevated after a few pictures to stardom, becomes obsessed with an overwhelming desire to go on the stage. Finally securing a part with a dramatic stock company, she fall in love with a character man, who, unknown to her, is of degenerate character. Giving him all her love, however, she sets out to reform him with the usual result—but that's the story!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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The Widow's Bite
Overview: Spencer Williams' comedy feature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-02
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Brown Gravy
Overview: A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Birthright
Overview: Birthright is a 1924 film by Oscar Micheaux in 10 reels, adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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Deceit
Overview: Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film. The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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The Spider's Web
Overview: A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-03
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The Gunsaulus Mystery
Overview: The Gunsaulus Mystery is a 1921 American silent race film directed, produced, and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film was inspired by events and figures in the 1913-1915 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish man, for the murder of Mary Phagan, a Christian girl. The film is now believed to be lost.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Blonde Venus
Overview: In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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