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Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of American comedian and film actor Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902–November 19, 1985). Although his typical film persona and stage name have long been synonymous with the stereotype of the servile, shiftless, simple-minded black man in early 20th Century American film, Fetchit parlayed it into a successful film career. Image File history File links Stepin_fetchit. ...
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Born in Key West, Florida, to West Indian immigrants, Perry began entertaining in his teens as a comic character actor. His stage name was a contraction of "step and fetch it," suggesting a servile character. He played comic relief roles in a number of films, all based on his character known as "The Laziest Man in the World." Despite this, Perry was an actor in the truest sense of the word; "Stepin Fetchit," no matter what the names of the roles he played on screen, was himself a Perry character. In fact, Perry was highly literate and had a concurrent career writing for the Chicago Defender, one of the nation's best-respected black newspapers. Nickname: The Conch Republic, Southernmost City In The Continental United States Coordinates: Country United States State Florida County Monroe Government - Type Council-Manager - Mayor Morgan McPherson Area - City 7. ...
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If the Fetchit persona derives, too, from a common manipulation technique used by blacks to mitigate their status by pretending to be unintelligent and fulfilling the low expectations of whites, Perry himself was not afraid to use it offscreen. Auditioning for a role in a remake of In Old Kentucky, Perry stayed in character before and after the audition, often feigning low intelligence or skipping or mumbling lines he did not like.
For his role as Joe in the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat, Perry's singing voice was supplied by Jules Bledsoe, who had originated the role in the stage musical. Curiously enough, however, Fetchit did not "sing" Ol' Man River, but instead a new song used in the film, The Lonesome Road. Bledsoe was actually seen singing Ol' Man River in the sound prologue shown preceding the film. A part-talkie film is a film made usually during the early sound era (anywhere from 1927 to 1930), which is partly a silent film and partly a talkie. ...
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Perry did not invent the stereotype to which his stage name became synonymous, but Stepin Fetchit's image was used to popularise it. Many black characters in the movies were based on Stepin Fetchit, including Stymie in the classic Our Gang comedies, though like Fetchit (a fact often forgotten about him), Stymie had his ways of outwitting his assumed superiors. (As it happens, Fetchit repaid the reference: he guest-starred in an Our Gang short, A Tough Winter, intended as the pilot film for a Fetchit short subject series producer Hal Roach had planned but which never materialized.) Matthew Beard, Jr. ...
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In due course, the Fetchit image came to be seen as degrading enough that Perry's films rarely get a screening now. Nor have they seen widespread video release. On the rare occasions the films are shown, most of his segments are deleted. But film historians across racial lines have come to see that Perry was in fact a gifted comic. He was also the first black actor to become a millionaire. Unfortunately, Perry was a far better actor than he was a manager of his own money, and he was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1947. Origins of motion picture arts and sciences Any overview of the history of cinema would be remiss to fail to at least mention a long history of literature, storytelling, narrative drama, art, mythology, puppetry, shadow play, cave paintings and perhaps even dreams. ...
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Perry converted to Islam in the 1960s and became a friend of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, with both men claiming Perry taught Ali a particular punch. But Perry also found himself in conflict during his career with civil rights leaders who criticized him personally for the film roles he portrayed. However, Perry had something of the last laugh: in 1976, the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP awarded him a Special Image Award, acknowledging that, whatever the stereotype his famous alter ego had inspired, his had been a trailblazing career without which many black film careers might have been more difficult to make. Two years after that, Perry was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. He appeared in 54 films between 1925 and 1976, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Muslims performing salah (prayer) Kaaba and Masjid al-Haram in Mecca Islam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th-century Arab religious and political figure. ...
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Salute was a 1929 in film motion picture directed by John Ford, starring George O’Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney, Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry), and Frank Albertson about the football rivalry of the Army-Navy Game. ...
Zenobia (also known as Elephants Never Forget (UK) and Its Spring Again) is a 1939 comedy film starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker, June Lang, Stepin Fetchit, and Hattie McDaniel. ...
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Sources - Watkins, Mel. Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry, Pantheon, 2005. ISBN 0-375-42382-6
- Clark, Champ. Shuffling to Ignominy: The Tragedy of Stepin Fetchit, iUniverse, 2005. ISBN 0-595-37125-6
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