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Evelyn Preer is a Actor American born on 16 july 1896 at Vicksburg (USA)
Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis (July 16, 1896 – November 27, 1932), was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."
She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain.
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Evelyn Preer
Birth name Evelyn Jarvis
Nationality USA
Birth 16 july 1896 at Vicksburg (USA)
Death 27 november 1932 (at 36 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 16 july 1896 at Vicksburg (USA)
Death 27 november 1932 (at 36 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain.
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Blonde Venus (1932)
, 1h33Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Sidney Toler, Gene Morgan
Roles (uncredited)
Rating70%
The movie begins with seven American students traveling in Germany. They stop at a pond and spot six girls (who all work for a theater) bathing. The unclothed girls discover the male students and attempt to conceal themselves. One of the girls, Helen (Dietrich), asks them to go away, to which one of the young men, Ned (Marshall), responded by adamantly refusing to go.
Ladies of the Big House (1931)
, 1h17Directed by Marion Gering
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Earle Foxe, Rockliffe Fellowes, Purnell Pratt
Roles Inmate
Rating64%
The Devil's Disciple (1925)
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault
Deceit (1923)
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Evelyn Preer
Roles Doris Rutledge/Evelyn Bently
The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault
Roles Ida May Gilpin
The body of Myrtle Gunsaulus, a young African-American girl, is discovered in the basement of a New York City factory. Arthur Gilpin, the African-American janitor who discovered the body, is arrested and charged with her murder.
Within Our Gates (1920)
, 1h19Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Evelyn Preer, Leigh Whipper
Roles Sylvia Landry
Rating63%
The film opens with Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer), a young African-American woman, visiting her cousin Alma in the North. Landry is waiting for the return of Conrad from World War I as they plan to marry. Alma also loves Conrad, and would like Sylvia to marry her brother-in-law Larry, a gambler and criminal. Alma arranges for Sylvia to be caught in a compromising situation by Conrad when he returns. He leaves for Brazil, and Larry kills a man during a game of poker. Sylvia returns to the South.
The Brute (1920)
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault
Roles Mildred Carrison
Herbert Lanyon is thought to be dead after a shipwreck, and his fiancée Mildred Carrison is forced by her money-minded Aunt Clara into marriage with "Bull" Magee, a gambler and underworld boss who mistreats Mildred. After Herbert returns, Magee undergoes financial difficulties that he blames on Mildred and Herbert, and seeks revenge. Herbert and a repentant Aunt Clara, however, free Mildred from Magee, and the lovers are able to marry. A subplot involves boxer "Tug" Wilson, who is ordered by his manager Magee to lay down in the seventeenth round of a prizefight at the film's climax. No other information concerning the plot has been discovered.
The Homesteader (1919)
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Evelyn Preer
Roles Orleans
Rating68%
The Homesteader involves six principal characters, the leading one being Jean Baptiste (Charles Lucas), a homesteader far off in the Dakotas, living where he alone is black. To this wilderness arrives Jack Stewart, a Scotsman, with his motherless daughter, Agnes (Iris Hall). In Agnes, Baptiste meets the girl of his dreams. Agnes, however, does not know that she is not white. Peculiar fate threw her in the company of the Homesteader, but their love is forbidden by the custom of the country. Baptiste eventually sacrifices the love of this girl of his dreams, goes back to his own people and marries the daughter of a preacher.