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Hallelujah (1929) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #Hallelujah
Hallelujah is a cinematic milestone: the first all-black feature from a major studio and famed director King Vidor's (The Champ, The Big Parade) first talkie. But the film surpasses its historical significance, telling a story of such profound dignity and understanding that it as fresh and moving as the day it premiered.
Directed By King Vidor
Starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
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[@CosmicEremite]

Was doing some genealogy research last year and learned that Nina Mae is an ancestor of mine on my mother's side. My aunt looks so much like her it's crazy.

[@claudetteholloway1126]

She is my spiritual grandmother...

[@Geoffreydarcy-pv4mq]

I was doing some genealogy research , and found out we're all Nina's cousins, by blood. True story.

[@gracediai7866]

Nina Mae really killed it. 👍🏽

[@hamburgareable]

She even looks like Betty Boop! 0:04

[@Geoffreydarcy-pv4mq]

Betty Boop was based on Baby Esther, and Helen Kane. more, or less.

[@roseb.1537]

So sad that Nina Maey McKinney died of a heart attack at only 54! This is my favourite all black- cast film.

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

did u watch cabin in the sky with eddie anderson, lena horne & ethel waters or green pastures

[@roseb.1537]

@@JomoDaMusicMan No, but now I'll look for them to watch-thanks!

[@anthonystroman8407]

Same here what a great movie and cast.

[@Penrose-wi6tx]

Long before Hallie Berry, Angela Bassett, Diane Carroll, Ruby Dee, Dorothy Dangries or Lena Horne... There was the beautiful Queen Nina Mae McKinney! Classic Black Hollywood Royalty!

[@anthonywest7583]

NINA MAE'S BEAUTY WAS BREATHTAKING.

[@anatolyveitsenfeld9801]

Dorothy Dandridge

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

@@anatolyveitsenfeld9801 She didn't have the slim built of Dorothy D or Haile Berry nor Leena Horne, she was short and well stacked, what we would say, ""A FINE PIECE OF BROWN LEATHER, WELL PUT TOGETHER"

[@jadender]

@@JomoDaMusicMan “Imma’ call her Almond Joy”

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

I know of her, she played that high yellow girl in Hallaluah, she stole Zeke's heart and it was a great movie

[@daconqueror7777]

Nina Mae's a legend!

[@anthonywest7583]

NINA MAE MCKINNEY WAS A BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED WOMAN.

[@LadyL31786]

Who would’ve thought Nina Mae was only 16 when she played the role of ‘Chick’ in this movie?!? When I saw this movie for the first time 5 years ago, I thought she was 21 at least.

[@BAYBAY_316]

I just discovered that this movie was the very first movie with sound and made in Arkansas. Not what I woulda expected but love it regardless.

[@TheReneex]

She was very mature for a 16 year old. They dolled her up to look older than she actually was.

[@SoundBlackRecordings]

I've had this song stuck in my mind all week LOL

[@jsunshyne87]

I just watched this film tonight with my Dad. He told me I had to watch it and I was glad I did. Ezekiel had me cracking up everytime lust came into his eyes.

[@100AmazingFacts]

What a talented beauty!

[@melloncollie3321]

Just now learning about Nina Mae. She was from my mom's hometown.

[@Godsbutterfly4923]

The dance moves!

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

Some sista's that I know were using her exact dance moves in the 80;s & 90's in local bars in Cincy

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

Some of the greatest movies ever made, Halleluah, Cabin in the SKY featuring Eddie Andersen, Lena Horne as sweet GA Brown and Ethel Waters, Carmen Jones with Dorothy Dandridge & Harry Belafonte, Green Pasture which was like a the tenth commandment with all black cast and of course Stormy weather with Bill Bo Jangles Robinson & Lena Horne/ I've got to recover all these great films which I once had

[@reggaelove7223]

@JomoDaMusicMan Don't forget Porgy and Bess as well. Great movie.

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

@@reggaelove7223 yes, Sammy Davis Jr won some type of award in the film, I haven't seen it since I was at Forbes AFB 1965

[@reggaelove7223]

@@JomoDaMusicMan Oh? I don't remember that...but his role as "Sportin' Life" was stellar!

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

@@reggaelove7223 two of white movie directors actually won oscars, Sidney, Dorothy and SAmmy along with Pearl Bailey was nominated for golden Globe awards but none won, also movie was nominated for best musical

[@reggaelove7223]

@@JomoDaMusicMan Oh okay. Thank you! 💚🖤💛

[@ranchokitty1]

Methinks Elvis watched this picture in his hometown theater. and copped a few of her moves.

[@anthonywest4173]

GREAT MOVIE. NINA MAE MCKINNEY WAS A STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED WOMAN. DANIEL HAYNES WAS A GREAT ACTOR.

[@LBuford216]

I believe I heard that she was 17 years old at the time...

[@harveyg104]

If I could go back in time, I would say hello to her.Beautiful.....❤

[@bonnies4662]

I definitely give her kudos for being the the 1st black woman signed to MGM. That was tarnished by her putting black people down in her heyday. She also did some great acting in the movies Sanders River and Pinky. She had other movies as well.

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

this was the a great movie, i had entire movie, loaned it out and it was never returned

[@joedanns5678]

I have not seen the full movie, but Hallelujah (1929) was one of a kind in that not only was it one of only a handful of 'speaking' films produced, surrounded by silent pictures. It also was unique in that it featured a large black cast in the 1920s!!, think about that. The 1920s media was fairly new and full of racist adverts and programs on radio and in print etc. Not just in the USA but here in the UK and the rest of Europe to a lesser degree. In the USA lynching was taking place in the south and north. The KKK had the government's backing to a degree. So MGM should be so proud to have created this picture that showed the other side of the coin

[@luckydude4506]

iTunes has it available for $9.99.

[@kurtdavis506]

@@joedanns5678 While I agree with the sentiment and point that you're making: that we're lucky to have this early representation of an all black cast directed at that specific audience at that time, I reserve my kudos to the studio, as I'm sure they were only motivated by greed and didn't want to leave a particular demographics spending money unharvested. I know that's a cynical view, and I'm sure they also wanted to provide quality parallel entertainment to an underserved populace, so that IS a good thing, I still know that they wouldn't have done it if it weren't for the money. Still, what a great document. Jim Jackson is in this movie!

[@VictrolaJazz]

Recorded it one night on VHS over 15 years ago, still have the tape which plays perfectly!

[@danielthoman7324]

you can find it on eBay. it's on DVD and it's only just over $8 .

[@Iva_Kupalskaya]

Очень красивая, артистичная, музыкальная девочка. Жаль, что голливуд ее не оценил так, как она этого заслуживала.

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

u don't say, if i knew this i would've watched the movie twice

[@ranchokitty1]

The only way this was made at MGM (of all places!) was Louie B Mayer pulled a fast one on director King Vidor and afterward felt guilty. Louie B told him he could make any picture he wanted to. So he packed up a film crew and went to the South and shot Hallelujah without the suit's prying eyes looking in on him. When he came back to Culver City with the film, the suits jumped out of their collective skins upon seeing the finish film but released it anyhow, where it died a quick death and was largely forgotten for 50 years.

[@byronbenguche]

You are correct it wasn't until 1979 this film was found in the MGM Vaults at one point it was considered a "Lost Film" by King Vidor it was until 1989 it was shown on television when Ted Turner created the TNT Network the year before in 1988 the full uncut version wasn't shown until Ted Turner created TCM in 1994 i'm glad it's part of the Library Of Congress this is a historic piece of Black Film History

[@ranchokitty1]

also if it was made 6 month prior it would have been silent, it made it right across the borderline of sound,@@byronbenguche

[@ceeceetracey9839]

OMG Nina Mae McKinney. Never seen any footage of her. (Through ancestry I have McKinney's in my family tree too 🙂)

[@gadgetblox109]

cant believe she was just a teenager here

[@joesielskisr4911]

What a beautiful lady

[@tonycanabal1659]

I saw the whole movie on TCM, I wept when Ezekiel's brother was killed, then when Chick died.

[@roseb.1537]

When I first saw this film many years ago I had a crush on the brother who died. Very little is written about him. But when I saw the TV series ''Hustle'' the main actor who played Mickey Stone reminded me of the brother so I had a crush on him, too!

[@goodgirl5824]

Why are you ruining the movie for those of us who have not watched it yet. Dang......... Freaking add (Spoiler Alert) to the beginning of your comment!!!

[@factsmatter2393]

I love that crazy dance at 3:54😍

[@MemoryLane77852]

The Drunkin Uncle Shuffle 2:27.

[@Dentsun4228]

look like he had bad knees too...

[@ranchokitty1]

Later in the film that same guy is riding a mule and she says, "Man..that mule should be ridin' you."

[@brentg3707]

terrific

[@vitaliapods]

profound dignity and understanding..

[@javusbonmon6937]

✊🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎥🎬🎭

[@rosperry6089]

Have you folks also seen Melancholy Dame & the other 2 Spencer Willams talkie shorts from 1929? I was surprised when I learnt that he played Andy in the controversial Amos 'n Andy TV shows we watched askids here in Australia

[@puppylove422]

SO CUTE! I LOOOOOVE NINA

[@a.m.8071]

Elvis Presley totally stole her dance moves.

[@JomoDaMusicMan]

Elvis stole lots of blacks dance moves and songs and even styles, he wanted to be like Jackie Wilson, among others, in fact, he used to go to the Apollo theater in Harlem, dressed in disguise, to watch acts to steal

[@juanamigdaliaruiz]

👍

[@peterabram62]

Amazing to think she'd barely turned 17 when she did this role.

[@roseb.1537]

Somewhere I read that she was still 16!

[@k.m.h7480]

I remember buying this movie on ITunes years ago. I was in college and read about her and in different books read about her usually just a few sentences when Billie Holiday was mentioned. She got a chance but the powers that be took it away as fast as she got it. But I like this weird little movie , to me it’s her best film the rest were mostly race films that weren’t even a movies more D and E . Life is strange. Seems she disappeared without a trace and very little personal pictures seem to exsist except publicity pictures

[@SUPABOOOMB]

Who’s here from that TikTok? 👀

[@joantom4902]

George robey

[@anthonystroman8407]

If im not sure she was only a teenager.

[@jonsmith848]

Madam Josephine Baker sidestepped this fate by having the extreme foresight to leave the U.S.A.

[@1957MCL]

If America, being truly the land of the free, had extended the same respects, freedoms and dignities to blacks, as well as to any other human being, then maybe there would be an America today that would be leading the world. But no. Too much to ask. Even now.

[@charchartime1701]

🙄