Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry

ISBN-13: 9781400096763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 338 str.

Mel Watkins

Opis

In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era s most popular comic stereotype the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as the best actor that the talking movies have produced, and Mel Watkins s meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor s life, from Perry s tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry s prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment."