Marla Gibbs
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marla Gibbs (born June 14, 1931) is an American television and film actress and singer. She is best remembered for playing Isabel Sanford's and Sherman Hemsley's sarcastic maid, Florence Johnston, on The Jeffersons and spinoff Checking In. She also starred as Mary Jenkins on the television series 227. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marla Gibbs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: June 14, 1931
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Gender: Female
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The Meteor Man
Overview: One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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Foolish
Overview: 'Foolish' Waise is a talented comedian with a hard-edge trying to make it in the comedy clubs in LA while his brother is a hard-nosed gangster trying to make it on the streets. With all the competition they face in their chosen "professions," their biggest battle is with each other over the love of a pretty girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Overview: Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of African American comedy in America, from the earliest minstrel shows to the latest HBO special. Featuring interviews with cultural critics and loads of comedic clips, this program features appearances by a who's-who of black comedians including Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg and many more.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Lost & Found
Overview: In order to impress his beautiful French neighbor, Dylan Ramsey dognaps her pet pooch so he can return him and become a hero.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-23
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Second Sight
Overview: Cursed with horrifying visions of the future, Tatyana Ali stars as a woman looking to save a kidnapped girl in this TV One original movie.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Overview: When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
Overview: Exploring how Black actresses, a historically overlooked and under-valued group in Hollywood, have in recent years begun to ascend to the top echelons of entertainment and American culture. The special examines how Black actresses of Hollywood have become power brokers and the iconic moments and roles have paved the way for them today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-03
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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Overview: A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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The Young Landlords
Overview: Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought for a dollar.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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The Heart Specialist
Overview: Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, until he heads to Florida to intern under the tutelage of chief resident Dr. Sidney Zachary. With help from his girlfriend, "Dr. Z" sets out to mold Ray into a caring, responsible doctor. Along the way, he shares some important truths and a whole lot of humor in this sexy romantic comedy
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Madea's Witness Protection
Overview: For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea's house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-29
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C'mon Man
Overview: Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-26
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Spirit Halloween: The Movie
Overview: A group of middle schoolers discover a Spirit Halloween store is haunted and must survive the night.
Genres: Adventure Family Horror Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Lily in Winter
Overview: Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old son Michael stows away for the ride. Together, Lily and Michael realize just how alike and how different their worlds really are. Michael explores a way of life he never knew existed, while Lily discovers some tender truths about the family she left behind.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-08
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Lemon
Overview: A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-22
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Grantham & Rose
Overview: When a petty crime thrusts him into the company of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American woman named Rose Price, Grantham and Rose push the boundaries of their relationship, their lives, and what it means to love, as they take a road trip back to their roots.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-23
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Your Alcohol I.Q.
Overview: Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Afro Ninja
Overview: This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real prospects. Until he uncovers a pair of magic nun-chucks that gives him karate superpowers and set Reggie up for a battle with the evil Kung Fu Master.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
Overview: Whoopi Goldberg is the voice of Mother Goose in this all-star, all-rhyming tale set in multi-ethnic nursery-rhyme land.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Overview: The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Menu for Murder
Overview: Joanne Mayfield, head of the parental school commission, behaves like a dictator and makes all the other women her enemies. But when she suddenly falls dead on a party after having a sandwich, the main suspect is Susan, who served her the food. The handsome detective Joe Russo interrogates her repeatedly and they become friends. He invites her to help him with the investigation, what she happily accepts - too happily, says her husband.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-04
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You Can't Take it With You
Overview: Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about a slightly daft family who do exactly as they please.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-16
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Bromates
Overview: Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a living situation, they decide to become "bromates", bros who are roommates, which puts their relationship to the ultimate test.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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A Christmas Prayer
Overview: When a former alcoholic and now respected leader of the local church gets accused of a heinous crime, he struggles with the possibility of not only doing hard time but keeping his own "faith" while trying to prove his innocence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-11
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A Snowy Day in Oakland
Overview: A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small, commercial block located across the bay in Oakland, turning the predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood on its emotional ear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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The Last Revolutionary
Overview: Two African Americans fight against a far right group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Stanley's Gig
Overview: An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-19
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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The Man in 3B
Overview: Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. Connie (Brely Evans), an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage. But when Daryl starts making Connie feel beautiful again, she questions whether her marriage is worth saving. Benny (Robert Ri'chard), a spoiled teenager raised by a single father, looks up to Daryl. When an unexpected event occurs, Benny is left questioning everything he's ever known to be true. Krystal (Nafessa Williams), Daryl's first love, wants to make things work with her current boyfriend. Yet having Daryl back in her life sends her happy home spiraling out of control.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Please Stand By
Overview: A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on her journey into the unknown.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Passing Through
Overview: Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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Behind the Groove: The Black Ice Documentary
Overview: Told by a member's son, this is the story of five kids from L.A.'s Watts neighborhood who formed a little-known funk and soul outfit in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Love Jacked
Overview: Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé who is not quite what he seems.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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The Missing Are Deadly
Overview: An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable virus that can kill 100 million people in three weeks.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-08
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The Visit
Overview: A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-20
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The Brothers
Overview: This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to come to terms with their own issues of commitment and honesty...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-23
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She Ball
Overview: On a mission to save his Inglewood community center, Avery Watts enlists a talented basketball player, Shelby, to help him win the grand prize in a street ball tournament. Together, Avery and Shelby challenge local politicians, gangs and their own stereotypes to save their community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Overview: In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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One Fine Christmas
Overview: The families on Christmas Street have been so busy with their day-to-day lives that they lose sight of the importance of family during the holiday season.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Overview: Celebrities re-create an original episode each from "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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Love on Layaway
Overview: Marla Gibbs narrates a filmed staging of playwright David E. Talbert's comedy-drama. Directed by Talbert and Leslie Small, this fly-on-the-wall production looks at the lives of three very different couples living in the same Philadelphia brownstone. A single mother can't decide between her new boyfriend and her 6-year-old son; Monique can't figure out her live-in boyfriend; and Ms. Willanetta questions her 12-year relationship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Overview: Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family situations involving the use of illegal drugs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-11
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Up Against the Wall
Overview: A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Mildred 4 a Million
Overview: Mildred 4 a Million is a poignant comedy about a great grandma who desperately wants to connect with her 7-year-old tablet-obsessed great granddaughter, so she sets out to get a million followers on TikTok.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Border to Border
Overview: Rambling indie about the people a couple of ramblers meet as they race from place to place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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