Word: allstars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producing the latest of some 40 Negro pictures it has made in 20 years. They are scripted, directed, edited and peddled by thickset, mild-mannered, chocolate-colored Producer Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux pictures take an average ten days to shoot, cost from $10,000 to $20,000. Casts are always allstar. "If I made one person the star," says foxy Producer Micheaux, "there would be no holding that person with a halter. I make them all stars." Though Oscar Micheaux has never made a picture in Hollywood, he has patiently built up a limited market for his Negro films. About...