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That's Black Entertainment is a 1989 documentary film starring African-American performers and featuring clips from black films from 1929–1957.

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That's Black Entertainment
Directed by	William Greaves
Written by	G. William Jones
Produced by	Norm Revis, Jr. David Arpin
Distributed by	Video Communications
Release date	1989
Running time	60 minutes

Film clips included

Many entertainers, along with their musical numbers, and the film they starred in, include:

• Paul Robeson (Song of Freedom)
• Bessie Smith (St. Louis Blues)
• Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney, and The Nicholas Brothers (Pie, Pie Blackbird)
• Lena Horne (The Duke Is Tops)
• Nat 'King' Cole and Moms Mabley (Killer Diller)
• Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ethel Waters (Rufus Jones for President)
• Cab Calloway (Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party)
• Ethel Waters (Carib Gold)

Not only musical clips were shown, but dramatic clips as well, like Murder in Harlem (1935), Juke Joint (1947), Four Shall Die (1940), and Souls of Sin (1949).

The film also includes clips from white films stereotyping blacks, including D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and a blackfaced Bing Crosby in Crooner's Holiday (1932).

Celebrity appearances

• Billie Allen
• Louis Armstrong
• Albert Ammons
• Eubie Blake
• Clarence Brooks
• Cab Calloway
• Nat 'King' Cole
• Bing Crosby
• Dorothy Dandridge
• Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Duke Ellington
• Francine Everett
• Stepin Fetchit
• William Greaves
• Alfred Hawkins
• Billie Holiday
• Lena Horne
• Pete Johnson
• July Jones
• Moms Mabley
• Nina Mae McKinney
• Clarence Muse
• The Nicholas Brothers
• Jesse Owens
• Paul Robeson
• Frank 'Sugar Chile' Robinson
• Bessie Smith
• Fredi Washington
• Ethel Waters
• Spencer Williams

References

External links

• That's Black Entertainment at IMDb

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