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Madame Sul-Te-Wan is a Actor American born on 7 march 1873 at Louisville (USA)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan (born Nellie Crawford; March 7, 1873 – February 1, 1959) was an American stage, film and television actress. The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the East Coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community. She became known as a character actress, appeared in high profile films such as Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), and easily navigated the transition to the "talkies."
Her career spanned over five decades, and, in 1986, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Sul-Te-Wan was the first African American actor, male or female, to sign a film contract and be a featured performer.
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Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Birth name Nellie Crawford
Nationality USA
Birth 7 march 1873 at Louisville (USA)
Death 1 february 1959 (at 85 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 7 march 1873 at Louisville (USA)
Death 1 february 1959 (at 85 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Her career spanned over five decades, and, in 1986, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Sul-Te-Wan was the first African American actor, male or female, to sign a film contract and be a featured performer.
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Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Directed by Charles F. Haas, H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Scatman Crothers, Maurice Marsac, Bruce Lester
Roles Witch Woman
Rating49%
The idyllic jungle life of Tarzan (Gordon Scott), Jane (Eve Brent) and Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) is interrupted by a drum message telling them of predatory hunters loose in the jungle. Tarzan disrupts the animal-collecting expedition of the hunters, Schroeder (Lesley Bradley) and Rene (Maurice Marsac); he frees a baby elephant whose mother they have killed and then leads the elephant herd against them when they make hostages of Tartu and Cheeta the chimp. Afterwards he warns off two other hunters, Sikes (Saul Gorse) and Lapin (William Keene), seeking to plunder the lost city of Zarbo. He is attacked by their men, but escapes and shadows their party. Aware of Tarzan's continued presence, the hunters capture his native friend Tyana (Sherman Crothers), and trap the ape man when he tries to free him. Tyana's tribe rescues the two. Finally, the hunters reach Zarbo, but find it empty of both people and treasure. In a final conflict, Tarzan overcomes the villains, who are then turned over to the authorities by the natives.
Band of Angels (1957)
, 2h5Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist II, Patric Knowles, Rex Reason
Roles Flower Vendor (uncredited)
Rating64%
Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is raised as the privileged white daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat ride there, he makes it clear that he intends to sleep with her, but desists when she tries to hang herself; as a beautiful, cultured young woman who can pass for white, she is far too valuable to risk losing.
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
, 1h38Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary DeCamp, Donald MacBride, Pierre Watkin
Rating60%
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
, 2h4Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel
Rating67%
Theater producers (Horton and Sakall) staging a wartime charity program, only to have the production taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).
Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
, 1h1Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele, Mantan Moreland, Veda Ann Borg
Roles Beulah
Rating47%
After the death of Max's (John Carradine) wife Lila (Veda Ann Borg), he holds a funeral for her. However, he has also turned her into a zombie. He is amazed when Lila show signs of free will and challenges him for control. In the excitement Dr. Keating (Barry Macollum) goes missing after entering a tomb which should not have been entered.
King of the Zombies (1941)
, 1h7Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer, Guy Usher
Roles Tahama
Rating52%
During World War II, a Capelis XC-12 plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily frightened manservant (Mantan Moreland) soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies, and confirms this with some of the doctor's hired help. Exploring, the three stumble upon a voodoo ritual being conducted in the cellar, where the doctor, who is in reality a foreign spy, is trying to acquire war intelligence from a captured US Admiral whose plane had crashed in a similar fashion on the island. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their master.
Maryland (1940)
, 1h32Directed by Norman Foster, Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne, Charles Ruggles, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Naomi
Rating60%
After her husband dies, wealthy Charlotte Danfield sells off his entire stable of horses and forbids son Lee to ride again.
Safari (1940)
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Muriel Angelus, Lynne Overman, Clinton Rosemond
Roles Native Woman
Rating61%
, 59minutesDirected by Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley, Edgar Dearing, Frank Shannon
Roles Ruby (uncredited)
Rating60%
Tell No Tales (1939)
, 1h9Directed by Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart, Douglass Dumbrille, Halliwell Hobbes, Zeffie Tilbury
Roles Jim Alley's Mother (uncredited)
Rating64%
Un journaliste tente de sauver son quotidien de la faillite en partant lui-même à la recherche d'un kidnappeur...
In Old Chicago (1938)
, 1h35Directed by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Action, Historical
Themes Films about families, La fin du monde, Films about the labor movement, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Phyllis Brooks
Roles Hattie
Rating66%
The O'Leary family are travelling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O'Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon. He is killed when his horses bolt. His wife Molly and their three boys are left to survive on their own. In town she agrees to prove her skills as a laundress when a woman's dress is accidentally spattered with mud. She quickly proves herself and builds up a laundry business in an area known as "the Patch". Her sons are educated. One, Jack, becomes a reforming lawyer, but another, Dion, is involved in gambling. While washing a sheet, Mrs O'Leary discovers a drawing, apparently created by Gil Warren, a devious local businessman. Her sons realise that it reveals that he has a plan to run a tramline along a street that he and his cronies intend to buy up cheaply.
The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
, 1h8Directed by Benjamin Stoloff, Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly, Bradley Page, Fritz Feld, Thurston Hall
Roles Benzedrina (uncredited)
Rating59%
Lannie (Jack Oakie) has Annabel (Lucille Ball) taken into prison in order to generate publicity before the release of her new movie. However, when Annabel is released a month later, she finds that nobody has noticed, and she has Lannie fired. But when he pays a struggling actress to pretend to be his sick mother, Annabel has Lannie rehired, and he immediately begins plotting his next stunt.
Kentucky (1938)
, 1h35Directed by David Butler, Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Horse sports in film
Actors Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille, Moroni Olsen, Edmund Mortimer
Roles Lily
Rating62%
During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses. He is killed by Dillon and his youngest son Peter (Bobs Watson) cries at the soldiers riding away with the horses.
Maid of Salem (1937)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser, Benny Bartlett
Roles Tituba
Rating64%
It tells the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, who has an affair with an adventurer. She is sentenced as a witch, but saved by him.
Imitation of Life (1934)
, 1h51Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington
Roles Cook (uncredited)
Rating74%
White widow Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) and her daughter Jessie (Juanita Quigley as a toddler, Marilyn Knowlden as an eight-year-old) take in black housekeeper Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers) and her daughter Peola (Sebie Hendricks), whose fair complexion reveals her mixed-race ancestry. Bea exchanges room and board for work, although struggling to make ends meet. Delilah and Peola quickly become like family to Jessie and Bea. They particularly enjoy Delilah's pancakes, made from a special family recipe. Five years later, Jessie and Peola prove to be challenging children to raise: Jessie is demanding, not particularly studious, relying instead on her charm. She is the first person to call Peola "black" in a hurtful way, making it clear that their childhood idyll is doomed. Peola does not tell her classmates at school that she is "colored" and is humiliated when her mother shows up one day, revealing her secret.