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While Selznick paced his office explaining the situation to reporters, he took nervous peeks at a gold wrist watch by which he futilely tries to be prompt. The watch, received shortly after the release of GWTW, bears the inscription in Whitney's handwriting: "David-Xmas, 1939. Praise de Lawd. Jock...
Negro Actor Ingram, not to be confused with Director Rex Ingram (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) has been on & off stage and screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand...
...Lawd make preacher big an' fat, Sleek an' shiny lak a beaver...
...Lawd make you po' an' lean De sorries' sight ah eber seen...
With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...