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Stepin Fetchit : the life and times of Lincoln Perry, Mel Watkins
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- The first African American movie star, Lincoln Perry, a.k.a. Stepin Fetchit, is an iconic figure in the history of American popular culture. In the late 1920s and '30s he was both renowned and revile d for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's mo st popular comic stereotype--the lazy, shiftless N egro. After his breakthrough role in the 1929 film Hearts in Dixie, Perry was hailed as "the best a ctor that the talking pictures have produced" by the critic Robert Benchley. Having run away from his Key West home in his early teens, Perry found success as a vaude- villian before making his way to California. The tall, lanky actor became the first millionaire black movie star when he appeared in a string of hit movies as the whiny, ever-perplexed, slow-talking comic sidekick. Perry was the highest paid and most popular black comedian in America during Hollywood's Golden Age, but his ongoin g battles with movie executives, his rowdy offscreen behavior, and his extravagant spending kept him in gossip-column headlines
- Perry's spendthrift ways and exorbitant lifestyle hastened his decline and, in 1947, having squandered or given away his fortune, he was forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1964 Perry was discovered in the charity ward of Chicago's Cook County Hospital; he later turned up in Muhammad Ali's entourage. In 1972 he unsuccessfully sued CBS for defamation because of a television program that ridiculed the type of characters he had portrayed. But his achievements were eventually acknowledged: in 1976 the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP gave him its Special Image Award for having opened the door for many a succeeding African American film star, and in 1978 he was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. In Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins has given us the first definitive, full-scale biography of an entertainment legend
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780375423826
- Label
- Stepin Fetchit : the life and times of Lincoln Perry
- Title
- Stepin Fetchit
- Title remainder
- the life and times of Lincoln Perry
- Statement of responsibility
- Mel Watkins
- Subject
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- trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueVaudeville -- United States -- History
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- The first African American movie star, Lincoln Perry, a.k.a. Stepin Fetchit, is an iconic figure in the history of American popular culture. In the late 1920s and '30s he was both renowned and revile d for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's mo st popular comic stereotype--the lazy, shiftless N egro. After his breakthrough role in the 1929 film Hearts in Dixie, Perry was hailed as "the best a ctor that the talking pictures have produced" by the critic Robert Benchley. Having run away from his Key West home in his early teens, Perry found success as a vaude- villian before making his way to California. The tall, lanky actor became the first millionaire black movie star when he appeared in a string of hit movies as the whiny, ever-perplexed, slow-talking comic sidekick. Perry was the highest paid and most popular black comedian in America during Hollywood's Golden Age, but his ongoin g battles with movie executives, his rowdy offscreen behavior, and his extravagant spending kept him in gossip-column headlines
- Perry's spendthrift ways and exorbitant lifestyle hastened his decline and, in 1947, having squandered or given away his fortune, he was forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1964 Perry was discovered in the charity ward of Chicago's Cook County Hospital; he later turned up in Muhammad Ali's entourage. In 1972 he unsuccessfully sued CBS for defamation because of a television program that ridiculed the type of characters he had portrayed. But his achievements were eventually acknowledged: in 1976 the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP gave him its Special Image Award for having opened the door for many a succeeding African American film star, and in 1978 he was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. In Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins has given us the first definitive, full-scale biography of an entertainment legend
- Biography type
- individual biography
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- 185586
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- 1940-
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- Watkins, Mel
- Dewey number
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- 791.4302/8/092
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- Fetchit, Stepin
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- the life and times of Lincoln Perry
- Label
- Stepin Fetchit : the life and times of Lincoln Perry, Mel Watkins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index
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- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780375423826
- Lccn
- 2005043183
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- Stepin Fetchit : the life and times of Lincoln Perry, Mel Watkins
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index
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- volume
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- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780375423826
- Lccn
- 2005043183
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- ocm58043116
- OCoLC
Subject
- African American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography
- trueBankruptcy -- United States -- Personal narratives
- Fetchit, Stepin
- trueFilm actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
- trueMinstrel shows -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives
- trueAfrican American film actors and actresses -- Biography
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