Mildred Boyd (1908-1999) was an actress, a singer, and a dancer who was active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s.[1][2] Like many Black actresses of her era, she was often cast as a maid or a nurse.
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Born | October 2, 1908 Kingston, Tennessee, USA |
Died | October 22, 1999 (aged 91) Inglewood, California, USA |
Occupation | Actress, dancer, singer |
Boyd was born in Kingston, Tennessee, to Creed Boyd and Rachel Finley. The family moved to Nebraska soon after she was born. Boyd relocated to Los Angeles as a young adult, where she found work a chorus girl at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, a popular Black nightclub in Culver City. She was part of a group known as the Creole Cuties.[3][4]
Around the same time, she began appearing in Hollywood films, working regularly throughout the 1930s and 1940s.[citation needed] She appeared in more than 200 films.[5]
On Broadway, Boyd appeared in The Duchess Misbehaves (1946).[6]
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