Trixie Smith
Actor · 1895 – 1943 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress who lived in Harlem.
Movies4
Movie6.0DramaTed Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
Swing!
1938 · 4 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
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA confident and unscrupulous minister begins a 'back to Africa' movement, proclaiming himself Emperor of the United States of Africa.
The Black King
1932 · 3 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