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...mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate school through which passed some able and attractive players, among them Rita Hayworth, Ray Milland and William Holden. For Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), Oscar Levant actually composed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Movies: Sub-Gumshoe | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

When he saw the tape, Cassius had a new story. The punch that flattened Liston, he insisted, was his secret "anchor punch"-so named because it anchors opponents to the floor. The punch was taught to him by a darkface comedian named Stepin Fetchit, who learned it from Jack Johnson, first of the great Negro champions. Said Clay: "It's a chop, so fast you can't see it. It's karate. It's got a twist to it. Just one does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Theater of the Absurd | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...most of the 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 »

Tunstall Barker Perry, III, Birmingham's pride, squired a Bradford miss to Cowie last Sunday noon, accompanied by that great Dane, Bennett Nielson, and date. "Yawall," (Perry), who is rumored to be the white man's Stepin Fetchet, stood in the chow line for ten minutes before he realized that it was moving...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/12/1944 | See Source »

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