Woody Strode as Jake in "The Professionals" (1966). (Photo: Cinema Retro Archive.)
This is too good to be true for retro movie fans. The great Woody Strode will be commemorated with a film festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Strode, a former professional athlete, was one of the first African-American actors to break the glass ceiling, appearing in supporting roles in many major films. The festival, titled "The Legend of Woody Strode", will offer a rare opportunity to see many of his films on the big screen. Here is the official press release.
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The Legend of Woody Strode
February 11–March 6, 2022
Despite the lack of opportunities for actors of color in his era, Woody Strode left a legacy worth revisiting. Strode, the six-foot-four pioneering athlete turned movie star, was born in 1914, in South Central Los Angeles, to Black and Native American parents.
This is too good to be true for retro movie fans. The great Woody Strode will be commemorated with a film festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Strode, a former professional athlete, was one of the first African-American actors to break the glass ceiling, appearing in supporting roles in many major films. The festival, titled "The Legend of Woody Strode", will offer a rare opportunity to see many of his films on the big screen. Here is the official press release.
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The Legend of Woody Strode
February 11–March 6, 2022
Despite the lack of opportunities for actors of color in his era, Woody Strode left a legacy worth revisiting. Strode, the six-foot-four pioneering athlete turned movie star, was born in 1914, in South Central Los Angeles, to Black and Native American parents.
- 1/27/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Premium entertainment network Epix has announced that "Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football," an Epix Original Documentary, will make its World Premiere [tonight] Tuesday, September 23, 2014, at 8Pm Et. The 60-minute documentary, narrated by Jeffrey Wright and produced by Ross Greenburg, tells the little-known story of 4 outstanding and brave African American men – Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley and Bill Willis – who broke the color barrier in pro football in 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey were credited with integrating Major League Baseball. Epix has joined forces with the National Football League to celebrate the...
- 9/23/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, four African-American athletes ended a 13-year whites-only policy in professional football. But their stories have remained largely unknown, until now. The new Epix documentary Forgotten Four shows how Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley and Bill Willis re-integrated professional football in 1946. While professional football was integrated in the early 20th century, in 1933 an agreement was made at the NFL owners meeting not to sign African-American athletes, historians and sports journalists explain in the documentary. But after World War II, a
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- 9/23/2014
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Tuesday evening, Epix and the St. Louis Rams hosted a special advance screening of the upcoming Epix Original Documentary Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football. This original documentary from Emmy award winning producer Ross Greenburg, chronicles the story of the four African-American athletes — Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley and Bill Willis – who are credited with breaking the color barrier in professional football in 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson.
The special screening took place at the Wehrenberg Galaxy Theatre. There was also a post-screening panel discussion with St. Louis Rams alumni including Brandon Williams and Derek Stanley and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Bryan Burwell.
Photos by Jeff Curry
An original documentary, Epix’s Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football will make its World Premiere on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, at 8Pm Et.
The 60-minute documentary, narrated by Tony Award winner Jeffrey Wright and produced by 52 time Emmy award winner Ross Greenburg,...
The special screening took place at the Wehrenberg Galaxy Theatre. There was also a post-screening panel discussion with St. Louis Rams alumni including Brandon Williams and Derek Stanley and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Bryan Burwell.
Photos by Jeff Curry
An original documentary, Epix’s Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football will make its World Premiere on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, at 8Pm Et.
The 60-minute documentary, narrated by Tony Award winner Jeffrey Wright and produced by 52 time Emmy award winner Ross Greenburg,...
- 9/10/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Premium entertainment network Epix has announced that "Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football," an Epix Original Documentary, will make its World Premiere on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, at 8Pm Et. The 60-minute documentary, narrated by Jeffrey Wright and produced by Ross Greenburg, tells the little-known story of 4 outstanding and brave African American men – Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley and Bill Willis – who broke the color barrier in pro football in 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey were credited with integrating Major League Baseball. Epix has joined forces with the National Football League to celebrate the achievements...
- 8/5/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...
- 8/26/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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