Fredi Washington
Actor · 1903 – 1994 · Savannah, Georgia, United States
Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 – June 28, 1994) was an American stage and film actress, performer, and writer. She gained recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s.
Movies11
Movie6.9ComedyMusicThe well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
Animal Crackers
1930 · 271 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Imitation of Life
1934 · 88 votes
Movie5.6DramaMusicUnscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Emperor Jones
1933 · 28 votes
Movie6.6DramaA female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
One Mile from Heaven
1937 · 5 votes
MovieDocumentaryOssie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Movie5.3MusicIn this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
1933 · 3 votes
Movie6.4ComedyMusicThis 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.
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
1934 · 16 votes
Movie5.6DramaA plantation owner's wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.
The Letter
1929 · 24 votes
Movie5.3HorrorIn 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.
Ouanga
1935 · 6 votes
Movie6.3MusicDramaDuke 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...
Black and Tan
1929 · 36 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A well-respected boxer is framed by his enemies in the death of a policeman during a raid on a local gambling establishment. He is convicted and sentenced to death and his friends seek to find the real murderer.
Square Joe
1922 · 1 votes