Biography: Beah Richards |
Born in Vicksburg, MS, in 1920, actress Beah Richards studied at Dillard University in New Orleans before pursuing an acting career on-stage in New York City. She appeared in Louis S. Peterson's off-Broadway play Take a Giant Step and in the film... more
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
Cast: Ruby Dee
Tags: History Race & Ethnicity Social History Biography
Length: 86min
Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton makes her directorial debut with the documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, a iography of actress and writer Beah Richards, whom Hamilton had worked with on The Practice and Beloved. The production of this project spanned...
Cast: Danny Glover Jonathan Demme Jason Robards, Jr.
Tags: Period Film Drama Psychological Drama Family Drama
Length: 180min
Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel (winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize), written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness flow and capturing the impact and aftermath of slavery on the human soul. In 1873,...
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg John Waters Andrei Konchalovsky Fritz Feld James Belushi
Tags: Odd Couple Film Comedy Action Road Movie
Length: 100min
Director Andrei Konchalovsky comes a cropper with this mawkish road movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi. Goldberg plays Edwina, an escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live. Belushi is Homer, a retarded man...
Cast: Elliott Gould
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 87min
Agoraphobia (Greek for "fear of the marketplace") is the focus of this drama starring Elliott Gould as Jimmy Morgan. Morgan seems fairly well-adjusted considering that deeply afflicted agoraphobics live in fear and even terror of human relationships...
Tags: Family
Length: 29min
A rare TV project from animator Don Bluth, Banjo the Woodpile Cat begins in somewhere in the Great Midwest, where the title character, a mischievous kitten, pulls one too many pranks on his mom and dad. Fearing severe punishment, Banjo hops a truck...
Cast: Billy Dee Williams Anthony Perkins Beah Richards
Length: 109min
Directed by Berry Gordy, Jr. as a vehicle for his star Diana Ross, Mahogany traces the life of a poor girl who makes it in the fashion world (first as a model, then designer) and deserts her boyfriend (Billy Dee Williams) in the meantime, hooking up...
Cast: Lew Ayres Godfrey Cambridge
Tags: Family Drama Animal Picture
Length: 90min
In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a fence-jumping contest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Cast: Sidney Poitier Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Cecil Kellaway Stanley Kramer
Tags: Family Drama Message Movie Comedy Drama
Length: 108min
Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when...
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