Alice B. Russell
Actor · 1889 – 1985
African-American actress, writer, producer, and the wife of director Oscar Micheaux.
Movies8
Movie5.1DramaMusicA movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.
Ten Minutes to Live
1932 · 8 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaAn undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.
The Girl from Chicago
1932 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaNaomi, 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.
God's Step Children
1938 · 7 votes
Movie8.0DramaFilm producer Winston L. Jaune gives his brother J. Lee a job in his company. J. Lee promptly steals company funds, spends lavishly in cabarets, at wild parties, and on women putting the company in financial difficulties.
Wages of Sin
1929 · 1 votes
Movie5.2MysteryCrimeA 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.
Murder In Harlem
1935 · 8 votes
Movie5.4DramaAfter graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.
Birthright
1938 · 14 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
An African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love. Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished novel, House of Mystery.
The Broken Violin
1928 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.
Easy Street
1930 · 1 votes