Stepin Fetchit Trailers
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Stepin Fetchit (1902–1985) was an American comedian and actor.
His Fetchit persona parlayed into a successful film career, eventually becoming the first black actor to become a millionaire. He was also the first black actor to receive screen credit.
Stepin Fetchit typical film persona and stage name have long been controversial, and seen as illustrative of negative stereotypes of Negroes. However, a newer interpretation of his film persona contends he was ultimately subversive of the status quo.
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Total trailers found: 54
01 September 1929
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
01 September 1931
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing.
15 September 1934
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
04 June 1935
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
02 May 1953
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
26 July 1976
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
12 February 1937
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
27 June 1934
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering.
11 May 1930
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
04 May 1934
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression.
30 August 1974
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.
05 July 1925
Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls.
27 July 1929
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married.
23 January 1952
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory.
02 February 1934
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
17 September 1935
Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit
15 February 1935
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
20 August 1935
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
03 June 1937
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
01 March 1928
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest.
18 May 1930
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian.
04 November 1931
Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything.
13 April 1929
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home.
24 February 1929
Miriam Holt hopes to solve the disappearance of a million dollars in bonds allegedly stolen by her late uncle.
02 August 1931
Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse.
21 June 1930
Spanish-language version of The Big Fight (1930).
03 November 1970
The study of crazy brilliance and flamboyant sincerity. a.k.a. Cassius Clay presents a fascinating look at the incredible life and achievements of one of the most courageous, outspoken and charismatic figures of boxing: Muhammad Ali.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
26 February 1937
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged.
21 June 1930
The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest.
21 February 1931
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
21 April 1939
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
12 January 1930
Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song.
02 January 1945
A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice.
19 June 1942
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
09 October 1936
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket.
26 January 1972
Private eye searches for a missing football quarterback in Chicago.
22 September 1933
Stepin Fetchit in the Educational Pictures short "Slow Poke," doing the shtick that made him a millionaire in the 1930s.
24 July 1936
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has ad
05 January 1935
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J.
11 November 1938
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
07 September 1929
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
29 November 1948
A crooked real estate tycoon tricks a trusting young woman out of her small candy store. When he is found dead, the girl is suspected of the crime.
01 February 1928
The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.
01 November 1968
Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"
02 March 1934
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh.
20 November 1927
Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War.
25 October 1934
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal.
02 March 1946
Soundie featuring Mable Lee and Stephin Fetchit.
07 May 1950
Pretty Ruth Mason, who headlined at the Village sport for almost a year, is the heroine with Manhattan Paul, emcee at the club, as the guy who gets her, finally.
06 November 1946
Gloria Parker plays a station news agent who sings about a well-dressed man who comes to her asking directions to Broadway and Main.
06 September 1935
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
25 May 1929
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
02 January 1929
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
