Sidney Easton
Also Known As: Sid Easton, Sydney Easton
Biography: Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Birthday: October 02, 1885
Deathday: December 24, 1971
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Gender: Male
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His Woman
Overview: Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-20
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Fight That Ghost
Overview: Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay up or get out. They get caught trying to short-count him, and he threatens to have them arrested. After a series of disasters--they ruin a customer's suit, their store blows up--they get a telegram notifying them that a man they once did a kindness for has left them quite a bit of money and a house, but in order to get the inheritance, they have to spend a night in the bedroom of the man's house. When they arrive there, they notice two things--the place is kind of creepy and a series of spooky incidents leaves them to believe the house is haunted.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Ouanga
Overview: In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-03
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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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Killer Diller
Overview: An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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The Story of Mr. Hobbs
Overview: Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Wayward
Overview: Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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The Conjure Woman
Overview: Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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What Goes Up
Overview: An all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star Babe Matthews was married to Green and she was a very popular vocal artist whose repertoire contained everything from gospel to blues.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Be Like Me
Overview: Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-24
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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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A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
Overview: A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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Boarding House Blues
Overview: In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
Overview: This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Sunday Sinners
Overview: Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular nightspot where drinking and dancing are the rule. No old-fashioned prude, the Reverend tries to see the positive side of the juke joint activities, knowing that the jitterbuggers are basically decent kids who just need to blow off a little steam. But the preacher sees red when the club opens on the Sabbath, threatening to turn the good townsfolk into Sunday sinners. An upcoming dance contest seems destined to become a showdown between the powers of light and darkness.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-01
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I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket
Overview: Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-23
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The Musical Doctor
Overview: Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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