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Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show ...
2 de mar. de 1977 · “Minstrel Man” opens in the 1880's with Harry and Rennie, as youngsters in their father's stage’ act, part of traditional minstrel setting with chairs in a semicircle and routines, overseen ...
It's too bad this TV movie has gotten lost and is unavailable on video--Maltin used to list it, and called it "outstanding". A touring minstrel company in the early part of the twentieth century is the focus; its experiences are used to dramatize the reality of racial relations in America; it resonates even today.
2 de mar. de 1977 · March 1, 1977 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Without 19th-century minstrelsy, much of today's popular entertainment - the skits of Flip Wilson, the verbal exaggerations of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., or ...
During the early 1900’s, 2 black brothers who work in a traveling minstrel have different goals; one’s determined to succeed in a field which is dominated by white performers in blackface, whilst the other is a composer, fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrels.
Brief Synopsis. The era of black minstrelsy as captured in the lives of two brothers: one an extroverted song-and-dance man determined to break tradition and own his own minstrel troupe in a field dominated by black-faced whites; the other an introverted and innovative ragtime pianist and composer struggling to br.
Minstrel Man is a 1944 American musical drama film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). It was a vehicle for Broadway and vaudeville headliner Benny Fields .
