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Fredi Washington
Fredi Washington was an American actress, civil rights activist, and journalist. She was best known for her role as Peola in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life" and for her advocacy for fair representation of black actors and actresses in Hollywood. She passed away in 1994.
Titles credited to Fredi Washington
Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.
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The Emperor Jones
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
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Black and Tan
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it mea...
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