“The #HollywoodBlacklist was a literal death for some, like the Black actor Canada Lee who played the noble doomed ex-champ in ‘Body & Soul’ [1947]…By May 1952, #CanadaLee was alone & penniless. He died of a heart attack at age 45." From "Red Hollywood" -> @kanopy.com: www.kanopy.com/en/product/r...
And our #FilmNoirClub leading men this week are John Garfield, William Conrad, Joseph Pevney, Lloyd Gough, Joe Gray and Canada Lee
#BodyAndSoul #JohnGarfield #WilliamConrad #JosephPeveny #JoeGray #LloydGough #CanadaLee #FilmNoir
The classic drama CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY (1951) starring Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier has been released on Blu-ray
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#bluray #classicmovies #classicfilms #crythebelovedcountry #canadalee #sidneypoitier @kinolorber.com
#botd the legendary actor and civil rights activist Canada Lee, seen here in a publicity shot as Bigger Thomas for the Broadway play adaptation of ”Native Son”.
#canadalee #nativeson #blackactors #civilrights #biggerthomas
#CanadaLee (1907-1952), an actor blacklisted in the ‘40s for speaking out against racism, refusing to denounce #PaulRobeson during the McCarthyism era. His final film, Cry,The Beloved Country(1951), was shot in apartheid S.Africa, where he had to be smuggled into the country. #TheMelanatedArchives 🖤
CANADA LEE: An Interview with Mona Z. Smith
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #KinoLorber #SidneyPoitier #CanadaLee #ZoltanKorda
Canada Lee, for the Federal Theatre's stage production of HAITI, 1938.
Caption: "Orson Welles during the production of Horse Eats Hat. 1936. Federal Theatre Project collection." Credit: Library of Congress, Music Division
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"I never would have amounted to anything in the theatre if it hadn't been for #OrsonWelles [...] If I'm an actor today, it's because of what he did for me."
— #CanadaLee via an interview with the Baltimore Afro-American
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#theatre #shakespeare #blackfilmsky #filmsky #Macbeth #blackactors
Before touring the country, the #OrsonWelles adaptation of #MACBETH —titled VOODOO MACBETH—premiered on its opening night in Harlem on April 14th, 1936.
The production starred:
#JackCarter as Macbeth
#EdnaThomas as #LadyMacbeth
#CanadaLee as #Banquo
#theatre #shakespeare #blackfilmsky #filmsky
Canada Lee in Alfred Hitchcock's LIFEBOAT (1944)
Canada Lee
Juano Hernandez and Dean Stockwell in STARS IN MY CROWN (1950)
Juano Hernandez
Appreciation post for BOTH Black actor #CanadaLee AND Puerto Rican actor #JuanoHernandez. Gawd, I don't say nor see their names mentioned often enough. These two incredible #actors should be as well-known as anyone in the structure of #classicfilm —scratch that ... in the structure of #cinema.
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s clever films #alfredhitchcock #lifeboatmovie #tallulahbankhead #johnhodiak #walterslezak #williambendix #maryanderson #henryhull #heatherangel #humecronyn #canadalee #blackandwhitemovies #oldhollywood
