Paradise In Harlem (1939) | Edna Mae Harris | All Black Cast

[@-oiiio-3993]

Your selections are wonderful... and I have no African ancestry at all. The music and talents of these visionaries are still bringing people together and hopefully always will.

[@reelblack]

Gracias 😊

[@-oiiio-3993]

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[@NathanThePrezPretlow]

With the exception of black face entertainer,This movie shows even in the depression of the 30s black people still went out dress to the nines to enjoy themselves.

[@ccth22]

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[@karinec.2131]

The colorism is real...til this day, especially the women ( hence the dancers : The Cotton Club, etc..)

[@j3rryb3rry]

I was sitting here thinking the same thing. Smh. Not a dark skin woman in sight. Our trauma runs deeeep

[@Penrose-wi6tx]

Some of them was darker them you think. It was filmed in black and white, not the best quality. Also lightening cream was the norm, in those days. For example Edna Mae Harris, was actually brown skin, I saw a documentary from the 90’s when she was an elderly woman. She was much darker then she was projected in these movies. Also some light skin people had it worst in those days. They couldn’t play the stereotypical roles because they wasn’t dark enough and couldn’t play in movies as lading ladies or men because they was still black a “N”. This was characterized as the doomed molutto, talented actress like Freddie Washington, career didn’t go far because of racist Hollywood. The race movies was there only outlet

[@michaelwalls3236]

This was filmed in 1939.....darn near 100 years ago. Get off the colorism crap its 2021.

[@mel8517]

@@j3rryb3rry When the Silver-screen inside that era of time was fairly new,then any image within the limelight of tinsel town was bright lit.As in the likes of Stars.Not limited to race color,nor culture.So with any new trends,especially incredibly entertaining Shows,that were fresh off the Radio,whose character image one could not view.So images has to be high shortly insight & short enough in size to fit inside the viewed screen.The majority of the actors back them, seem very tall, but in a reality their tiny in stature!

[@davicool4284]

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[@evonza4858]

The quality of this is better than the other one🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

[@noonetoyouthatis]

Tough to watch but I won't forget my folks.

[@queenratv115]

I feel you

[@-oiiio-3993]

I'm drawn to these by the great music and talent. Your folks left the world enriched despite the deck being stacked against them.

[@thephoenix2176]

@@-oiiio-3993 Yes agreed w/out all the victimhood. Made it all work with less!

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[@dyonomitereacher8140]

I really enjoyed this. The only thing I found distracting is that in the comments no one mentioned the fact that Shakespeare has a Black grandparent yet all the paintings we see of him NOT ONE is a session he posed for.We are shown paintings of Shakespeare done by people who NEVER saw him. I know of many adults with a Black grandparent and some how, teachers, shop keepers, police, bank tellers etc.. knew them not to be white. Yet we are told William Shakespeare is white. Now some might wonder why would england do this? Well, from the 1500's to the 1600's when William Shakespeare was doing these things there was the sale and enslavement of Blacks. As even today the Black that invented and ran the APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM, Isaac T. Gilliam IV is not on one of the news feeds.Anyway nice show. I love the show so much I have been looking at your videos for about a year and JUST realized it says REELBLACK and not reelback. Thank you soooo much for ALL the videos, as Marcus Garvey said THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.

[@chrisrattray8958]

Shakespeare, Black? Don’t show your stupid racist ignorance. I’m sure you’d believe Henry 8th married Anne Boleyn cos she was black too. And I mean nothing against blacks by any means it’s just sheer nonsense!

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[@kkristian8350]

1939🤔🤔🤔 these people were obviously talented. If only they had felt comfortable telling their story instead of imitating someone else story. They could have created a Historical masterpiece 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤Talent is second to none 💯

[@dariuslester8756]

My friend, we have to be mindful that they had a different mindset back then. Our ancestors generally - though not all - were not so quickly offended by those types of blackface and other stereotypical features. My late father, born in 1930 (I was born in 1978) along with older AA who were his contemporaries, would enjoy these types of films and saw no offense whatsoever in them. We as younger generations have to be mindful to not despise or even judge those of the older generations because of our present day sensibilities.

[@BlackRob1955]

They barely had the right to live back then...they really didn't have access to white Hollywood back then...people get confused with our ability to make our own stories in present day with old white Hollywood which was for white people only.

[@kkristian8350]

My father was born in 1938 and he never found BLACK FACE funny🤪🤪🤪Please stop saying it was just the way things were back then. W.E.B DuBois 1868 - 1963 didn't think it was cute. Marcus Garvey 1887 didn't find it funny. I couldn't imagine Elijah Muhammad born 1897 who headed the Nation of Islam in 1934 watching this picture in 1939. These were obviously talented people I truly wished they felt comfortable enough to tell their story instead of imitating someone else story. The🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 Experience is second to none 💯

[@kkristian8350]

@@BlackRob1955 I'm confused by your comment. Did you simply want to disagree 🤔🤔🤔

[@dariuslester8756]

@@kkristian8350 I do not disagree with you. That sort of entertainment is degrading. The only point that I am driving in is that we cannot judge people of the past for doing things that were not considered totally inoffensive back then. It shall be that some of the things that we are doing in this contemporary time will be regarded as completely unthinkable and unacceptable 50 years later. Are we willing to allow our future descendants to judge us very harshly in all good stride? I look at the events of the past as things that were acceptable back then but not acceptable now - yet with no harsh judgement nor disdain towards those who participated in those unacceptable acts of yesteryear. I don't judge the people of the past based on relatively contemporary sensibilities and thought.

[@TheJoaniejoancansew]

Thank you for this upload

[@b1bo840]

these all black cast movies are filled with one-drop rule blacks

[@markmorales9785]

You are right

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[@devinpoet423]

you can see the colorism, they all got their hair fried dyed and laid to the side

[@larissap6544]

Definitely

[@-oiiio-3993]

You forgot 'fried'.

[@brias1755]

That’s not colorism. It’s assimilation. This was the 30s. Afros weren’t even acceptable to wear until the 60s.

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[@thephoenix2176]

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[@CA-LOVEFORJESUSCHRIST]

I loved watching this movie...but they looked good for that time period...this is what it was.

[@latoshastanfield5523]

@56:00 or so he says that Othello was a moor and I hate how they suppressed the knowledge of what a moor was SMH At least this movie had a very happy ending!

[@mel8517]

Bingo!

[@mel8517]

It's as if they were playing out Shakespeare's Othello, not even knowing their was some profound innate thing majorly attracting the main actor to the lead part of that specific play!Only most people in the comment section are quick to disagree that Othello & perhaps even Shakespeare, may very well have been Moors.If most people of the Renaissance era ingeneral mimicked all forms of creations from the moors.Then every actor in this film are not trying to be something they are not.They are just naturally doing the most! Wow 4real tho!

[@Yasharala3]

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[@gacaptain]

I was just thinking about my Grandparents would have been young adults at this time.

[@hondotoo]

great... i love Lucky Millander

[@veronicahaney6005]

5:45 Well that's depressing.

[@alltheworldsastage.]

My grand father was 15 years of age them. Almost lived to 100

[@antarcticskies]

Michael, Can you share with us a little background about blacks doing blackface? I had no idea that even happened until I saw this film.

[@reelblack]

google Bert Williams, then Timmie Rogers.

[@antarcticskies]

@@reelblack Thanks!

[@thephoenix2176]

White producer!

[@jolynnwhite7946]

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[@invisibleray6987]

classic

[@aishawf]

Is this really an all black cast?

[@GypsyFairy85]

Yes it is. They wouldn't have dared to have integrated cast in those days. No matter how white some of the actors/actresses may appear to you they were black and treated as such.

[@markmorales9785]

In many places the 1/16th rule? was still imposed. Really, it all depends on your definition and what the word meant back then.

[@mel8517]

One of the first Academy Awards by chance of integrated caste,"Gone with the Wind" won an Oscar from the likes of a not all so black cast.Clark Gable(creole)& Hattie McDaniel(black) played the maid,plus the main lead female actor, who more than likely,is not another culture.

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28:49/1:24:49 they definetly flexin on the beat

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[@royjackson8523]

It boasts of having an all-black cast, but, of course, the producer/director is Jewish. IJS

[@colinhalliley111]

The Jewish people were smart about entertaining and made huge strides in entertainment, and then invested in movies . They produced and backed with cash others trying to make movies.

[@dawsonreece8680]

I though African-Americans hated blackface

[@markmorales9785]

It's insulting to be sure but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

[@invisibleray6987]

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