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6.9

40 Reviews

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Cast

  • Lena Horne

  • Bill Robinson

  • Cab Calloway

  • Katherine Dunham

  • Fats Waller

  • Fayard Nicholas

  • Harold Nicholas

  • Ada Brown

  • Dooley Wilson

  • Doris Ake

  • Juliette Ball

  • Lucille Battle

  • Matthew Beard

  • Talley Beatty

  • Lennie Bluett

  • Anise Boyer

  • Teddy Buckner

  • Judy Carol

  • Benny Carter

  • Janet Collins

  • Vivian Dandridge

  • Robert Felder

  • Louise Franklin

  • Ruby Golden

  • Suzette Harbin

  • Avanelle Harris

  • Kathleen Hartsfield

  • Maggie Hathaway

  • Charles Hawkins

  • Coleman Hawkins

  • Cleo Herndon

  • Johnny Horace

  • Illinois Jacquet

  • Mae E. Johnson

  • Jo Jones

  • Johnny Lee

  • Jeni Le Gon

  • Rosalie Lincoln

  • F.E. Miller

  • Taps Miller

  • Millie Monroe

  • Tommie Moore

  • Florence O'Brien

  • Neva Peoples

  • Henry Phace Roberts

  • Ruth Scott

  • Zutty Singleton

  • Ned Stanfield

  • Nick Stewart

  • Johnny Thomas

  • Lena Torrence

  • Emmett 'Babe' Wallace

  • Ernest Whitman

  • Artie Young

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