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Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) | Mamie Smith

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A Harlem business leader tries to bring peace and prosperity to his community, while a jealous enemy plots his revenge.
Mamie Smith (née Robinson; May 26, 1891 - September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress. As a vaudeville singer she performed in various styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American artist to make vocal blues recordings. Willie "The Lion" Smith (no relation) described the background of that recording in his autobiography, Music on My Mind (1964). - wikipedia
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@TorrenceBrannon1960 4 года назад

I love these films too, lots of style, class, decent stories, pride and dignity!

@sandramorris420 4 года назад

I’m gonna sit back relax,and enjoy this classic movie.I see Mamie Smith, and Sidney Easton.

@matrox 4 года назад

Who?

@izukubf 4 года назад

I am 15 and I love going back and learning about history. Especially of my ancestors!💗 Much love from Chicago💕

@Dee777i 4 года назад

Your history start from Genesis to REVELATIONS in the bible

@MrCrow42 4 года назад

@@Dee777i nah u talking about the white man religion?

@Penrose-wi6tx 4 года назад

MrCrow42 Shut up

@Penrose-wi6tx 4 года назад

Dee Cee she’s talking about black history, classic black Hollywood

@MrCrow42 4 года назад

@@Penrose-wi6tx nah i dont have 2 shut up im sorry

@akeldimis2979 4 года назад

Just a 21 yr old, old soul that appreciates your channel.

@staceydupree8488 4 года назад

I love love love this channel. Thank you for making it available. To see quality movies made with black people being showcased in all areas is a wonderful experience 💯💜👍🏽

@meganmacomber521 3 года назад

I recently found out my great grandfather, Ken Macomber, arranged the music for this movie and Sunday Sinners. Pretty cool ☺️

@surprisearoundthecorner7491 4 года назад

I'm so proud and happy to be living in HARLEM NYC. So much HISTORY, ESPECIALLY on lennox Avenue. HARLEM ROCKS

@WithloveTrinize 4 года назад

We'll as a proud Harlemite...I regret to inform you that they have wiped that history right on out...Harlem is just an extension of 59th st now...SMH, I don't know how long you've been there but what you see now is not Harlem...It's called SoHa now! smh...It'll never be the same.

@surprisearoundthecorner7491 4 года назад

@@WithloveTrinizeexactly, Harlem isnt like it used to be , too much change and a damn COFFEE shop on every corner . Its sad

@laylahalgharib1892 4 года назад

@Ingrid Towns time to return to our real home... MOTHER AFRICA

@DWhytePA 4 года назад

I grew up in Harlem during the 1960's and left in 1999 before it was taken over. Too bad. I have many fond memories growing up on 138th Street between Lenox and 5th but alas, I can't afford to live there ever again. Too bad.

@theclasmalls4406 4 года назад

@@WithloveTrinize Harlem has lost the aura it use to have this was one thing that belonged to us unfortunately gentrification changed that.

@cindyrolle6476 4 года назад

We lived in Harlem during the 1960s. It was wonderful. We saw every major Motown act that appeared at the Apollo. Cassius Clay lived at the Theresa Hotel. We lived at one time on 123rd and 110th streets. We were poor, but had no idea as young children we were. We didn’t understand that we lived in a segregated world back then.

@teenatchie1313 4 года назад

Same here reminds me of across 110th street

@DWhytePA 4 года назад

Me too...grew up on 138th off Lenox Avenue...sweet fond memories of the Apollo Theather...awww memories...

@lawrencecrawford4148 4 года назад

Cindy Rolle wow and tomorrow is his bday cc!!! You were rich in spirit

@BlackPlightPeople 4 года назад

That was obvious that we lived in a segregated country. Hello “Slavery”

@edmadrid1776 4 года назад

In 1987, Lenox Ave was renamed, or co-named, Malcolm X Blvd.

@CLDBEATZ 4 года назад

I love these types of movies. It's like I'm a old spirit in a young person body. Thanks for uploading these. I request a 1929 film called Hallelujah. Keep up the good work. 👊🔥🔥🔥

@reelblack 4 года назад

Unfortunately, Warner’s own it. You can rent it on Amazon.

@CLDBEATZ 4 года назад

Ok cool. Appreciate it. I'll check it out.

@willx_1 4 года назад

Harlem was once the Cultural Capital of Black America.

@jenuwinmoore9258 4 года назад

will x Yes sir, it was. YT done moved on in now...

@jeanettesdaughter 4 года назад

will x Harlem will ALWAYS hold that spot. Visit the Schomburg Library. See for yourself.

@BlackPlightPeople 4 года назад

Gentrifications all over the US where Black Culture once dominated

@jamalgadson2541 4 года назад

Until crack came

@ritamcbee 4 года назад

Back in HS I would go to Harlem every other weekend to sleepover with my best friend. 😁

@sophiadavenport3959 4 года назад

I love watching vintage films. 🎥

@mdarrenu 2 месяца назад

yes. they are just more soothing and relaxing to watch.

@jaydee8866 4 года назад

🖐🏾Watching from UK🙋🏾‍♀️

@jaydee8866 4 года назад

Can you show Carmen one day? One of my fav classic films of all times.

@nycsongman9758 4 года назад

Salute, reelblack: Thank you, for this fascinating glimpse back into this strange, exotic, yet often familiar world of our ancestors. Even though this flick proves that there’s nothing new under the sun, it’s very interesting to see how we were portrayed then, and how differently we moved and acted during this time. This is a very precious historical document, and as somewhat of a historian of our US experience in the 20th century, I’m extremely grateful for your time and effort in bringing this great and wonderful window of our lives to us.

@cmorestuff898 4 года назад

NYC Songman: A Salute back at you. Thank you for your viewing support and kind comment. We appreciate it. Mike D, the founder and driving force of ReelBlack, works tirelessly to find images of historical interests and diverse artistic content for the channel. Our history ain't always pretty. But real knowledge is the result of accepting the bitter with the sweet. It's about context and full historical perspective. Peace and Blessings!!!

@Kingofgrowers 3 года назад

Raised around this culture but not actually a part of it , I totally agree these are amazing bits of our US history. As for "nothing new under the sun" , back about 15 years ago zI found film footage on youtube of a group of folks in front of a shanty watching break dancers. It was from the 20s or 30s ! So cool having youtube !

@jamesthomas83381 4 года назад

I love all these black movies from the past when done by us with us

@lolajoselin7134 4 года назад

Don't forget back then we had paper sack clubs if darker than a paper bag ya can't come in!!!

@garealemcgill6967 4 года назад

The women are beautiful and natural wow how things done changed wish I could go back to this era

@garealemcgill6967 4 года назад

@@ahmedbelton8139 lol turned out in which way though hooked on dope mainly smack or women😂

@ahmedbelton8139 4 года назад

@@garealemcgill6967 All the above.

@jeanettesdaughter 4 года назад

Gareale McGill Er the women are all light skinned or brown skinned at best. The villain is always black and ugly. Good storytelling but the stereotypes and the color lines applied then as they do now. Keep it moving. Africans and people of African ancestry have internalized white supremacist ideas out of Europe and the transatlantic slave trade. That thinking and those values have to be eradicated for real and lasting change. Ask your children. Let’s see if they can pass that doll test in 2020. Carry on.

@lolajoselin7134 4 года назад

Black women suffered in that era!! Don't let a movie fool you!!! It was Jim crow!!! How could anyone black forget that?

@pinklady6224 4 года назад

@@jeanettesdaughter lol!

@keithcrowder7768 Год назад

Such talented black Americans. I love watching these old movie dramas. Those folks help pave the way for some of our great black actors today.

@shacelw5720 4 года назад

i'm a new sub.. i realize the appreciate you have for our black ppl around the world by the type of videos i have watch on your channel

@reelblack 4 года назад

Thanks for the love, Shacel. Blackatcha 👊🏿

@skyrobin4008 4 года назад

When I see these old videos... it reminds me more of the colorism of the community. Especially, for women. They are barely brown... even in black and white film you can tell.

@lawrencecrawford4148 4 года назад

Sky Robin I was thinking the same

@makedab4614 3 года назад

I actually find it quite interesting for another reason as I watch lots of film noir and a lot of the mainstream actors and actresses were probably multiracial and passing as white because they share similar facial characteristics.

@kimberlysmith8526 3 года назад

One thing about it be it half breed..mulutto...bi-racial...white ppl still see us as all the same...if you get what im saying. Apartheid was worse!

@MrRed-tf7bv 3 года назад

@@kimberlysmith8526 Not really, l know white people who said to me , if they are light enough & pass the brown paper bag test, then they accept them. I.e. Megam Markle & Rashida Jones.

@kimberlysmith8526 3 года назад

@@MrRed-tf7bv may be the case with passing white with some, I know differently in my family. I educated myself quick on the matter considering race was NOT a priority in my beautiful, rainbow of blackness in my family😙😊

@Newworld-gk6us 4 года назад

78 year old movie. Wow times where different back them.

@shototodoroki4816 4 года назад

yea no implants and online dating crap

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

@@shototodoroki4816 no cell phones, computers, etc ...

@tmajec 2 месяца назад

No tattoos and unintelligible mumble.

@Newworld-gk6us 4 года назад

My grandfather was 22 years old when this movie came out.

@lenevee4925 4 года назад

Good movie. I was waiting to see the guy with the shoulder affliction straighten up.

@sandramorris420 4 года назад

Also starring the fabulous Edna Mae Harris!

@hassanburton669 4 года назад

Str8 Out The Vault! May I Request Emperor Jones with Paul Robeson.. Thank You 🙏🏿

@byronbenguche 4 года назад

I remember back in the late 80 and early 90's BET used to Black Film Classics on Saturdays there was also a cable chsnnel in Chicago that also used to show these kind of black film classics that's inspired me to want to study film history at Columbia College thank you for this channel

@albertdoughty4182 2 года назад

I enjoyed this show. Thanks family for this..

@reelblack 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@marycraft3306 Год назад

Loved it❤ Thanks🎉

@Ravens_9 2 месяца назад

The videos are appreciated ReelBlk one.

@user-zi4nt9kr3s Месяц назад

My Hometown 4Life. I take pride born & breed in HARLEM❤

@dr.emanibanks 4 года назад

Thank you for that blessing! So relevant in various ways!!!

@coosettem2045 4 года назад

Mamie Smith (1883-1946) was the first African-American female performer to make a vocal blues recording in 1920 with "Crazy Blues". The song was written by Perry Bradford and it was recorded on August 10, 1920, by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds. Love her talents & singing, wow! Perry Bradford - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Perry_Bradford Perry Bradford was an African-American composer, songwriter, and vaudeville performer. Perry Bradford - Red Hot Jazz www.redhotjazz.com › bradford Perry Bradford was a singer, songwriter, pianist and vaudeville and minstrel performer who forever changed the sound of American popular music by convincing Okeh Records to release the first Blues record in 1920. Bradford was sure that there was a market for African-American music aimed at African-American consumers.

@PatriciaRuthLewis 4 года назад

Love this movie and the chicks look beautiful, no maid uniforms.

@jackiewrightwaugh4334 3 года назад

I like what they remind me of in past.

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

@@jackiewrightwaugh4334 Hollywood dropped the ball on black film industry. They only wanted stereotypes.

@auntroachkiller6086 4 года назад

The women back then dressed classy 👠not trashy👟

@davidval7188 4 года назад

Style beautiful Grace dignity warmth love understaning patience... man those women had it all

@willx_1 4 года назад

No cleavage and skirts down to their knees.

@pesha600 4 года назад

Oh my goodness. thought I was the only one that thought so. I tell you women where I live only were those hideous leggings and t shirts. You never ever see dresses any more. They go out looking like they are about to scrub the floor or something. I just do not get the psychology. No class any more.

@auntroachkiller6086 4 года назад

@@pesha600 I hate to see women come to the corner store in pajama bottoms and slippers.

@lawrencecrawford4148 4 года назад

Wow how time has changed , no internet, just happy times As a human

@JACKIELVSGOD 4 года назад

Enjoying your channel!!!

@matrox 4 года назад

Funny how they hired semi white women to play black women.

@hollywoodjaded Год назад

Are you familiar with Karine Alourde’s YT channel? She delves into this topic. African-American actresses such as Francine Everett, Freddi Washington and Sheila Guyse (circa 1930s-1950s) refused to pass-they were pressured strongly by the major studios. Ms. Washington, for example, was very involved early on in the Civil Rights movement. All talented actresses (some also singers), starred in what were termed at the time as Race Films. Owing to their refusal to pass as actresses in standard Golden Age Hollywood Studio films, or conversely play stereotypical roles of maids, cooks, poor girls in desperate circumstances, instead these talented Black artists took roles in films in African-American productions, with primarily entirely Black casts.

@kincamell2 3 года назад

Much Gratitude, Always.

@tylerhinton4120 4 года назад

Interesting performances. Maybe you should include the names of the actors or director in the description?

@shototodoroki4816 4 года назад

back then a man was ,a "man" anda a woman was a ", woman" now we dont know who .is who....or who is both

@stephenhensley5631 3 года назад

Now it's Bitch or Nigga.

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

You gotta look at their Adam's apple, big toe, armpits, see if hair growing out their ears etc,...smdh

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

A bunch of bat wanging she male he shes.

@derekseven1647 4 года назад

wMan, your channel is GREAT.

@angelapowell9030 3 года назад

I love the movies....so sad that colorism was the norm, but pleae continue to send more movies....

@jonlee72 3 года назад

Entertaining and very informative.

@jaenboston2683 2 года назад

It's not funny but prior to integration, blacks up north lived well. Their mores were similar to caucasians and we're well adapted in their own society. They had movies, entertainment, businesses and strong family ties. Men actually courted women. Totally opposite from today.

@isaacpowell1408 4 года назад

What happened to us🤔

@tjtj6540 4 года назад

@Sanuk Jang Lery it's definitely way more than that

@BlackPlightPeople 4 года назад

Sanuk Jang Blacks have never been included ECONOMICALLY “Dr Martin Luther King Jr” said this

@leomartin1603 2 года назад

People be like..."WATCH WHAT YOU SAY," but I'm like... "IM LIKE, I CANT "SEE"THE WORDS"!

@coosettem2045 4 года назад

A Harlem business leader tries to bring peace and prosperity to his community, while a jealous enemy plots his revenge. Initial release: 1941 Director: Arthur Dreifuss Music composed by: Donald Heywood Producer: Arthur Dreifuss Cast: Alec Lovejoy, Mamie Smith, Augustus Smith, MORE Screenplay: Frank H. Wilson, Vincent Valentini, Bryna Ivens

@Mark-yb1sp 4 года назад

Did the women back then have such light skin and straight hair or is this just Hollywood?

@casper12365 4 года назад

Oh...that's just Hollywood, and it's still happening today....Just not so much. Back then the dark skinned female was kept underwraps and out of sight..

@pesha600 4 года назад

@@casper12365 No different than the music videos today..

@pesha600 4 года назад

Don't forget miscegenation has always been around. And that hair was often fried into submission! .

@pesha600 4 года назад

Some of those ladies did look Latino though.

@keenafromphilly 4 года назад

Remember this is the day of the Code, and also the 1 droo rule some were mixed. But we ALL BLACK OUT HERE; WE ALL GOT THE SAME STRUGGLE OF OPPRESSION AND PERSECUTION

@hellokitty2397 3 года назад

I’d really like a handsome man who dresses nice

@FCOLAXCDG Год назад

pure #opulence !!! Thankyou ❤🇱🇨

@ahmad.tillery.1987 4 года назад

You shouldn't have to learn to love someone love shouldn't be forced.

@wilsondassumpcao2089 4 года назад

Mamie Smith died just 5 years after this movie was mad at the tender age of 55.(1891-1946)

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

Mamie Smith is of my great grandmother's generation born in the 1890's, I was blessed to live the first 22 years of my life with her.

@locqfortune5652 4 года назад

This is Crazy Good

@euricwadsworthsr601 3 года назад

This movie is beautiful and better then the bullshit movies we watching NOW !!!!2021.

@cute4real846 4 года назад

Dying scene at the end was the best!

@Beetwate305 4 года назад

1:22 She was dropping Bars!!!!!

@matrox 4 года назад

4:50 yep he meant no harm yet he just tried to kill him.

@jennypockets 3 года назад

Good film, should've been longer cos it looks like there are a few gaps in the story, especially at the end.

@davidval7188 4 года назад

What a treasure. I love Black PEOPLE. Especially ADOS

@BlackPlightPeople 4 года назад

Are you ADOS: Native Black American

@davidval7188 4 года назад

@@BlackPlightPeople No but I think every group owes FBA ( Foundational Black Amwricans ) or NBA ( Native Black Americans) orADOS( AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVERY) ....every group including So caled Native Americans owes them every thing this county has to offer. This because ADOS AS A GROUP WAS USED TO ENRICH EVERY OTHRR GROUP AND BUILD TGE WEATLTH OF THIS COUNTRY. .. NOT TO MENTION ALL THE CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BT ADOS.

@wizardoffrobozz 4 года назад

@reelblack, might find this interesting. Lenox Ave in Harlem is now Malcolm X Ave.

@matrox 3 года назад

15:00 he's mimicking a lot of comediene Burt William's mannerism and mimes in this bartending skit.😁

@SadeWithTheReceipts 4 года назад

FIRST HERE 👋🏽

@jeanettesdaughter 4 года назад

The more things change, the more things remain the same. Still fighting for the future of the race in Harlem and elsewhere against the same elements, some external but more internal.

@jasminevirgo9811 4 года назад

This bartender is hella funny.😄😄😄😄😄😄

@mochawitch 3 года назад

The Ancestors be praised❤️

@j.s1805 4 года назад

wow, in mono!

@bromisovalum8417 2 года назад

Corny as it may be, I prefer watching this much more than all the filth they spew out nowadays. At least back then they still had standards of decency.

@jewel8748 4 года назад

Stupid film, stereotypical!!!! Darker shades acting stupid, lighter shades "acting" more sophisticated, shameful what Black people had to go through!

@carolynburwell3712 4 года назад

Very classy and clean,dont marry any one you dont love?

@jtminor1620 4 года назад

MY BOY SKIP LIVES THERE

@percybrodhead6905 3 года назад

Is the sound turned off?

@rigomortisfxstudios Год назад

i would love to get a blue ray of this

@Blakpepa 4 года назад

Ok it's clear that the non busy body black women in this movie are all actually latina or straight white!

@BlackPlightPeople 4 года назад

Latinos consider themselves white

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

@@BlackPlightPeople Latinos think their yte folks.

@gwattsrealestate 4 года назад

This Movie put a spin Like a Top "USA Style" on the Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, A Reckless and unabated Foolishnes back story line.

@thenarcissistdash5654 4 года назад

Wonder what Malcolm little was doing 🤔🤔

@akeldimis2979 4 года назад

Probably roaming the streets of Harlem with red fox. I thought I was the only person who thought like that. What certain people were doing when I watch throwbacks.

@thenarcissistdash5654 4 года назад

Akel Dimis I know right it’s interesting kind of going back like a Time Machine, visual when he’s living at that time As they record the streets I’m thinking to myself I might see him 😀

@akeldimis2979 4 года назад

@@thenarcissistdash5654 Very interesting indeed. I wish I knew exactly what he was doing but Google says he was still living in Boston with his older half-sister Ella, that's where he was introduced to crime. He moved to Harlem in 1943 where he became a waiter .

@thenarcissistdash5654 4 года назад

Akel Dimis oh ok that’s wusup

@cryptico985 4 года назад

Minister Malcolm X was 16 in 1941.

@kelvinhopkins3000 4 года назад

Nice

@sjohnson2329 3 года назад

Harlem will A L W A Y S be the center of Black culture, in this world!

@denisedean2446 4 года назад

I love this. Seeing Blacks in Harlem living in flourishing communities was remarkable.

@jbp6994 4 года назад

👐🏽, Heard / read that Harlem/ Lenox area, visited many yrs ao, has been gentrified like many if not all inner cities, that use to primarily be inhabited by a Select Carbon Melanin Dominant Peoples aka American Black Folks. For those who have presently there for more than 5+yrs, is this true or not????

@teenatchie1313 4 года назад

Same thing with state Street in chi-town moved the black folks out built condos for the Whyte faces gentrifing that area cause it 15 minutes from the loop & the lakefront black folks ain't giving it up tho no matter how many Whyte move in we still go back to our roots

@teenatchie1313 4 года назад

Alotta us have homes there & business & we not giving up either one no matter how much money they offer

@jaydee8866 4 года назад

@@teenatchie1313 i am glad to hear that my sis. If you are to create generational wealth some things are just not for sale. Its like in London UK many blacks who owned property are regretting their decision to sell. Areas once considered a ghetto, e.g Brixton, Peckham in the south Shepherds Bush in the West Shoreditch in the East and Islington in the North are now becoming gentrified and properties are sold for millions.

@teenatchie1313 4 года назад

@@jaydee8866 yes thanks

@theclasmalls4406 4 года назад

Yup gentrification is Alive and Well in Harlem white folks walk around like they own it now.

@Themaddprof Год назад

I used to watch such films in the 80s on BET's "Black Classics." My parents watched some of them in their youth and I was able to share a few such moments with them when they were alive. But the acting in this one is REALLY bad, even for this genre.

@wilsondassumpcao2089 4 года назад

I am glad I found this movie, it's a shame that Hollywoond had to rely on stereotypes to portrait blacks back then, all I see is a set of good actors and actresses that happen to be blacks!!

@leomartin1603 2 года назад

The girls are sleeping with the band on the low.

@patriciaodom1448 4 года назад

Great movie and beautiful women

@MzThang-if5lq 3 года назад

Poor ending

@deborahleone4351 4 года назад

NO SOUND..?!?!pity......

@reelblack 4 года назад

There’s definitely sound.

@auntroachkiller6086 4 года назад

BROWN BOMBER? A drink named after Joe Louis?

@ndo6461 4 года назад

11:58. 44:25

@karajones4638 4 года назад

Where r all the rappers and singers actors atheletes while genderfication is taking place in Harlem where Diddy he says hes from Harlem cant he do something?

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

Them rapping niggas ain't gonna do shytt but sellout and shoot each other up over chains, sneakers and wretched baby mamas. . All the riches they've earned in Harlem you'd think they'd invest their lives init.

@pinklady6224 4 года назад

My mother looked a lot like these little pretty women in this movie.

@frankwilliams6131 Год назад

Yes mainly light skinned sister's funny still in many ways very much today

@kennethhickmanjr.facebookm8900 4 года назад

❤❤

@michaelbell8230 4 года назад

46:40 Now he's drunk!

@terrancedixon5725 3 года назад

They are sweating to much

@rogercobbs4297 4 года назад

Down beat, jive can you dig it i thought that was 60s and 70s slang not 40s

@hollywoodjaded 3 года назад

It’s jazz-speak.

@aarondigby5054 Год назад

@@hollywoodjaded they talked cool jive like that in the '40's.

@hollywoodjaded Год назад

Although the word “jive” first appeared in dictionary form in 1928, it didn’t take hold as the definition we know today until bandleader extraordinaire Cab Calloway popularized the early 1930s jive dance-among jazz-era African-Americans, where it swept the community as one of the most well-known and long-lived dance forms. Certainly by the 1940s, jive, itself, had spread throughout the jazz musician community. To wit: Bing Crosby, owed his career to the African-American jazz jvin’ artists. One only has to watch the 1956 film “High Society”, to see Crosby and Louis Armstrong steal the flick with their rendition of “Now You Has Jazz”. Returning to Cab Calloway, he was a force: Not only a bandleader, but also a skilled dancer and singer; also smooth, handsome and debonair. Excuse my effusiveness, but I learned to tap dance to Calloway’s music many decades later.

@hollywoodjaded Год назад

@@aarondigby5054 Absolutely yes!