Leon Gross
Actor
Orchestra leader for Oscar Micheaux films. Possibly the same person as John "Archy Boy" or Leon "Archibald" Gross, the R&B pianist and singer.
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
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
- MovieMusic
A musical short.
Harlem Hotshots
1945