Ralph Cooper Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

A popular small-town singer dubbed “The Bronze Venus” gets offered a shot at the big time in New York City, but it will mean leaving behind the loyal promoter who helped her make it this far. This remarkable film, one of the many so-called “race movies” made in the 1930s and ‘40s for the all-black theaters in existence at the time, also marks the screen debut of a twenty year old Lena Horne, and co-stars Ralph Cooper, longtime host of “Amateur Night At The Apollo”.

• Lena Horne
• Ferdie Fenton
• Specialty Tap Dancer
• Vernon McCalla
• Joe
• Mason
• Doc Dorando
• SnagFilms
• Sam, the Stage Manager
• Everett Brown
• Arthur Ray
• Ray Martin
• Druggist
• Guernsey Morrow
• Ralph Cooper
• Monte Hawley
• Ethel Andrews
• George Marshall
• Ella
• Ed. Lake
• Neva Peoples
• Dippy, 'Prince Alakazoo'
• Duke Davis
• Edward Thompson
• Johnny Taylor
• Willie Covan
• Sheriff
• Rubberneck Holmes
• Charles Hawkins
• The Duke Is Tops