Paradise In Harlem (1939) | Edna Mae Harris | All Black Cast

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Paradise in Harlem is a 1939 American musical comedy-drama film written by Frank H. Wilson and directed by Joseph Seiden. It was first shown in 1939 starring Frank H. Wilson. It was released by Jubilee Production Co.
An actor sees a mob execution and is run out of town by the aforesaid mob members. - Wikipedia
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@NathanThePrezPretlow Год назад

With the exception of black face entertainer,This movie shows even in the depression of the 30s black people still went out dress to the nines to enjoy themselves.

@-oiiio-3993 3 года назад

Your selections are wonderful... and I have no African ancestry at all. The music and talents of these visionaries are still bringing people together and hopefully always will.

@reelblack 3 года назад

Gracias 😊

@-oiiio-3993 3 года назад

@@reelblack As we said in the language of my homeland; _Coolness, dudette!_

@tedereTSSK 3 года назад

You're back with a bang!

@ccth22 3 года назад

Welcome back bro, another great find. Hopefully you can get “For The Love Of Ivy”.

@A1collect 3 года назад

Welcome Back,My Brother!!!!

@evonza4858 7 месяцев назад

The quality of this is better than the other one🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚

@karinec.2131 3 года назад

The colorism is real...til this day, especially the women ( hence the dancers : The Cotton Club, etc..)

@j3rryb3rry 3 года назад

I was sitting here thinking the same thing. Smh. Not a dark skin woman in sight. Our trauma runs deeeep

@Penrose-wi6tx 3 года назад

Some of them was darker them you think. It was filmed in black and white, not the best quality. Also lightening cream was the norm, in those days. For example Edna Mae Harris, was actually brown skin, I saw a documentary from the 90’s when she was an elderly woman. She was much darker then she was projected in these movies. Also some light skin people had it worst in those days. They couldn’t play the stereotypical roles because they wasn’t dark enough and couldn’t play in movies as lading ladies or men because they was still black a “N”. This was characterized as the doomed molutto, talented actress like Freddie Washington, career didn’t go far because of racist Hollywood. The race movies was there only outlet

@michaelwalls3236 3 года назад

This was filmed in 1939.....darn near 100 years ago. Get off the colorism crap its 2021.

@mel8517 Год назад

@@j3rryb3rry When the Silver-screen inside that era of time was fairly new,then any image within the limelight of tinsel town was bright lit.As in the likes of Stars.Not limited to race color,nor culture.So with any new trends,especially incredibly entertaining Shows,that were fresh off the Radio,whose character image one could not view.So images has to be high shortly insight & short enough in size to fit inside the viewed screen.The majority of the actors back them, seem very tall, but in a reality their tiny in stature!

@davicool4284 Год назад

@@michaelwalls3236 - question: Would Beyonce be Beyonce if her skin was dark and she didn't have her trademark waist length blond hair.

@TheJoaniejoancansew 3 года назад

Thank you for this upload

@pmpscheduler 3 года назад

If you need donations, I feel I owe you, love what you do, thank you so very much.

@noonetoyouthatis 3 года назад

Tough to watch but I won't forget my folks.

@queenratv115 3 года назад

I feel you

@-oiiio-3993 3 года назад

I'm drawn to these by the great music and talent. Your folks left the world enriched despite the deck being stacked against them.

@thephoenix2176 3 года назад

@@-oiiio-3993 Yes agreed w/out all the victimhood. Made it all work with less!

@dyonomitereacher8140 3 года назад

I really enjoyed this. The only thing I found distracting is that in the comments no one mentioned the fact that Shakespeare has a Black grandparent yet all the paintings we see of him NOT ONE is a session he posed for.We are shown paintings of Shakespeare done by people who NEVER saw him. I know of many adults with a Black grandparent and some how, teachers, shop keepers, police, bank tellers etc.. knew them not to be white. Yet we are told William Shakespeare is white. Now some might wonder why would england do this? Well, from the 1500's to the 1600's when William Shakespeare was doing these things there was the sale and enslavement of Blacks. As even today the Black that invented and ran the APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM, Isaac T. Gilliam IV is not on one of the news feeds.Anyway nice show. I love the show so much I have been looking at your videos for about a year and JUST realized it says REELBLACK and not reelback. Thank you soooo much for ALL the videos, as Marcus Garvey said THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.

@chrisrattray8958 2 года назад

Shakespeare, Black? Don’t show your stupid racist ignorance. I’m sure you’d believe Henry 8th married Anne Boleyn cos she was black too. And I mean nothing against blacks by any means it’s just sheer nonsense!

@kkristian8350 3 года назад

1939🤔🤔🤔 these people were obviously talented. If only they had felt comfortable telling their story instead of imitating someone else story. They could have created a Historical masterpiece 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤Talent is second to none 💯

@dariuslester8756 3 года назад

My friend, we have to be mindful that they had a different mindset back then. Our ancestors generally - though not all - were not so quickly offended by those types of blackface and other stereotypical features. My late father, born in 1930 (I was born in 1978) along with older AA who were his contemporaries, would enjoy these types of films and saw no offense whatsoever in them. We as younger generations have to be mindful to not despise or even judge those of the older generations because of our present day sensibilities.

@BlackRob1955 3 года назад

They barely had the right to live back then...they really didn't have access to white Hollywood back then...people get confused with our ability to make our own stories in present day with old white Hollywood which was for white people only.

@kkristian8350 3 года назад

My father was born in 1938 and he never found BLACK FACE funny🤪🤪🤪Please stop saying it was just the way things were back then. W.E.B DuBois 1868 - 1963 didn't think it was cute. Marcus Garvey 1887 didn't find it funny. I couldn't imagine Elijah Muhammad born 1897 who headed the Nation of Islam in 1934 watching this picture in 1939. These were obviously talented people I truly wished they felt comfortable enough to tell their story instead of imitating someone else story. The🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 Experience is second to none 💯

@kkristian8350 3 года назад

@@BlackRob1955 I'm confused by your comment. Did you simply want to disagree 🤔🤔🤔

@dariuslester8756 3 года назад

@@kkristian8350 I do not disagree with you. That sort of entertainment is degrading. The only point that I am driving in is that we cannot judge people of the past for doing things that were not considered totally inoffensive back then. It shall be that some of the things that we are doing in this contemporary time will be regarded as completely unthinkable and unacceptable 50 years later. Are we willing to allow our future descendants to judge us very harshly in all good stride? I look at the events of the past as things that were acceptable back then but not acceptable now - yet with no harsh judgement nor disdain towards those who participated in those unacceptable acts of yesteryear. I don't judge the people of the past based on relatively contemporary sensibilities and thought.

@paulwilbern1166 2 года назад

Blues,gospel,and jazz!!all in one entity.you are listening to Americas true National Anthem!!!this is the black legacy of America!God is trying to tell us something.what's in darkness,shall come to light!!!to know knowledge is to know the ways of the World.....thank you Reelblack.We Are the World!!!literally.Goat.😔

@delovelyday430 3 года назад

🖤🔥tfs your truly appreciated

@hondotoo 3 года назад

great... i love Lucky Millander

@b1bo840 3 года назад

these all black cast movies are filled with one-drop rule blacks

@markmorales9785 2 года назад

You are right

@latoshastanfield5523 3 года назад

@56:00 or so he says that Othello was a moor and I hate how they suppressed the knowledge of what a moor was SMH At least this movie had a very happy ending!

@mel8517 Год назад

Bingo!

@mel8517 Год назад

It's as if they were playing out Shakespeare's Othello, not even knowing their was some profound innate thing majorly attracting the main actor to the lead part of that specific play!Only most people in the comment section are quick to disagree that Othello & perhaps even Shakespeare, may very well have been Moors.If most people of the Renaissance era ingeneral mimicked all forms of creations from the moors.Then every actor in this film are not trying to be something they are not.They are just naturally doing the most! Wow 4real tho!

@devinpoet423 3 года назад

you can see the colorism, they all got their hair fried dyed and laid to the side

@larissap6544 3 года назад

Definitely

@-oiiio-3993 3 года назад

You forgot 'fried'.

@brias1755 3 года назад

That’s not colorism. It’s assimilation. This was the 30s. Afros weren’t even acceptable to wear until the 60s.

@officetechtyping 3 года назад

🤣

@thephoenix2176 3 года назад

Always wonderful to have choices.🤗

@thephoenix2176 3 года назад

Our beautiful ppl - I love our classy eras- Namaste

@antarcticskies 3 года назад

Michael, Can you share with us a little background about blacks doing blackface? I had no idea that even happened until I saw this film.

@reelblack 3 года назад

google Bert Williams, then Timmie Rogers.

@antarcticskies 3 года назад

@@reelblack Thanks!

@thephoenix2176 3 года назад

White producer!

@CA-LOVEFORJESUSCHRIST 3 года назад

I loved watching this movie...but they looked good for that time period...this is what it was.

@Yasharala3 3 года назад

AP2TMH POWER ~ Look at my Grandparents 🥰

@gacaptain 3 года назад

I was just thinking about my Grandparents would have been young adults at this time.

@jolynnwhite7946 3 года назад

Only kinsmanship , brings true understanding of the plight , the struggle still goes. On even from inside out 💕👌🏾🦹🏾‍♂️🌷🧕🏿👼🏿

@invisibleray6987 3 года назад

classic

@NajSinghs 3 года назад

❤❤❤

@veronicahaney6005 2 года назад

5:45 Well that's depressing.

@aishawf 3 года назад

Is this really an all black cast?

@GypsyFairy85 3 года назад

Yes it is. They wouldn't have dared to have integrated cast in those days. No matter how white some of the actors/actresses may appear to you they were black and treated as such.

@markmorales9785 2 года назад

In many places the 1/16th rule? was still imposed. Really, it all depends on your definition and what the word meant back then.

@mel8517 Год назад

One of the first Academy Awards by chance of integrated caste,"Gone with the Wind" won an Oscar from the likes of a not all so black cast.Clark Gable(creole)& Hattie McDaniel(black) played the maid,plus the main lead female actor, who more than likely,is not another culture.

@hrwatchinpuff6551 3 года назад

Like and subscribe...this channel is our time machine, and more.

@freepapua6778 3 года назад

28:49/1:24:49 they definetly flexin on the beat

@adiyahyIsrael_ 3 года назад

👏👏👏👏

@uhmeizuhngralphf0549 3 года назад

🤣😂

@invisibleray6987 3 года назад

zoot suit

@dawsonreece8680 2 года назад

I though African-Americans hated blackface

@markmorales9785 2 года назад

It's insulting to be sure but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

@royjackson8523 3 года назад

It boasts of having an all-black cast, but, of course, the producer/director is Jewish. IJS

@colinhalliley111 3 года назад

The Jewish people were smart about entertaining and made huge strides in entertainment, and then invested in movies . They produced and backed with cash others trying to make movies.