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Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industrial force. Petty focuses on five performers whose Hollywood film careers flourished during this period Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Lincoln Stepin Fetchit Perry, Bill Bojangles Robinson, and Hattie McDaniel to reveal the problematic stardom and the enduring, interdependent patterns of performance and spectatorship for performers and audiences of color. She maps howthese actors though regularly cast in stereotyped and...

Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industrial force. Petty focuses on five performers whose Hollywood film careers flourished during this period--Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Hattie McDaniel--to reveal the "problematic stardom" and the enduring, interdependent patterns of performance and spectatorship for performers and audiences of color. She maps how these actors--though regularly cast in...