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Word: fetchit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River as a molasses-slow deckhand on a river boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Married. Stepin Fetchit (real name: Lincoln Theodore Andrew Monroe Perry), 53, molasses-slow Negro comedy actor of the '30s (David Harum), now making a film comeback; and Bernice Sims, 35, housekeeper to a Catholic priest in Tulsa; he for the second time; in Tulsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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