Biography: Louise Beavers |
African American actress Louise Beavers was born in Cincinnati and raised in California, where she attended Pasadena High School. Louise's entree into Hollywood was as maid to silent film star Leatrice Joy. With Ms. Joy's encouragement, Louise began... more
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The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Cast: Ruby Dee
Tags: Biopic Drama Sports Drama
Length: 76min
Despite its lack of production values and box-office "names," The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed. Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson plays himself, and quite well indeed. The film...
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Cast: Cary Grant Myrna Loy Melvyn Douglas Louise Beavers Reginald Denny
Tags: Comedy Parody/Spoof Slapstick Domestic Comedy
Length: 93min
Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house in the country. Armed with more enthusiasm than common sense, Blandings causes many a headache for his lawyer/business manager...
Cast: John W. Boyle
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Comedy Farce
Length: 66min
This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters. Louise Allbritton is the lady lawyer bringing litigation against O'Keefe, who has promoted the song in question into a hit for his...
Cast: Darryl Hickman Mantan Moreland
Length: 69min
In this drama, a young woman shows two dogs at the championship competition at Madison Square Garden and when the two dogs get into a fight, they are both disqualified. The girl decides that she cannot keep them both and decides to sell her least...
The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)
Cast: ZaSu Pitts George Raft
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 67min
The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie Marty Black (George Raft) only has eyes for Penelope's prize two-year-old. After losing his gambling joint, Marty finds himself...
Tags: Crime
Length: 58min
Like many all-black films of the 1930s, Reform School is shabbily produced and unevenly acted, but still a rewarding experience for those patient enough to sit through the seedier passages. The magnificent Louise Beavers, so often wasted in...
Cast: Richard Dix
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 68min
RKO Radio's first official 1935 release was the Zane Grey adaptation West of the Pecos. Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling. He spends half of the film proving his innocence, and the other half...
Cast: Claudette Colbert Ned Sparks Warren William
Length: 106min
The first of two film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, 1934's Imitation of Life chronicles the friendship between two women--one white (Claudette Colbert), one black (Louise Beavers). Colbert is a widow with a baby daughter who hires Beavers, who also...
It Happened in New Orleans (1930)
Cast: May Robson Alan Mowbray Charles Butterworth Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
Length: 93min
In this heart-tugging musical, a Southern boy loses his parents during the Civil War and is forcibly wrenched away from his beloved mammy and sent to New York to live with his Yankee grandma. At first the family resents the rebel upstart, but soon he...
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