Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JERRY C. DAVIS Falls Church, Va.
While Davis was rehearsing with a mixed cast on Long Island, Dorothy Dandridge made her debut at the Highland Park, III., Music Theater as West Side Story's Anita, a Puerto Rican role. Such occasional successes only heighten the general sense of frustration that Negro actors share. Dorothy Dandridge...
But despite its tradition of realism, modern American theater-stage, films and television-has been slow to grant Negroes a place. One in every ten Americans is Negro, yet most scripts call for no Negroes at all. "How can you have a play called Subways Are for Sleeping" protests Sammy...
Extra Cats. Negroes do not want parts that would be visually ludicrous or uncomfortable. Casting a Negro in a romantic movie opposite a white star would unquestionably demand that the script explain his presence, if not concentrate on it. A Negro actor playing the part of a president of a...
"The way you got to do it is bring a couple of guys with you. I'm a star. I can make some demands, and one of them always is to make room for a couple other cats." Davis has had more luck than any other Negro in playing...