Sidney Easton

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Sidney Easton (October 2, 1885 – December 24, 1971) was an African-American actor, stage performer, playwright, composer, vocalist, and pianist. He worked as a performer in minstrel shows, carnivals, burlesque, and vaudeville. Starting in the 1930s he appeared in films. Born : 2nd-Oct-1885

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His Woman

Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
Released : 20th-Nov-1931

Fight That Ghost

Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay up or get out. They get caught trying to short-count him, and he threatens to have them arrested. After a series of disasters--they ruin a customer's suit, their store blows up--they get a telegram notifying them that a man they once did a kindness for has left them quite a bit of money and a house, but in order to get the inheritance, they have to spend a night in the bedroom of the man's house. When they arrive there, they notice two things--the place is kind of creepy and a series of spooky incidents leaves them to believe the house is haunted.
Released : 1st-Jan-1946

Ouanga

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.
Released : 3rd-Dec-1935

Paradise in Harlem

It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is applied only role in Harlem Vaudeville. One day he is the witness of a crime and the mobster strongly advised him to leave the town...
Released : 1st-Jan-1939

Killer Diller

An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
Released : 1st-Jan-1948

The Story of Mr. Hobbs

Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented.
Released : 1st-Jan-1947

Wayward

Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
Released : 19th-Feb-1932

The Conjure Woman

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.
Released : Unknown

What Goes Up

An all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star Babe Matthews was married to Green and she was a very popular vocal artist whose repertoire contained everything from gospel to blues.
Released : 13th-Apr-1939

Be Like Me

Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain.
Released : 24th-Oct-1931

Murder on Lenox Avenue

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge; and Pa's ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis. And hanging around is Marshall's murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it all end in someone's being killed?
Released : 1st-Jan-1941

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
Released : 20th-Mar-1932

Boarding House Blues

In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.
Released : 1st-Sep-1948

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Released : 24th-Aug-1934

Sunday Sinners

Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular nightspot where drinking and dancing are the rule. No old-fashioned prude, the Reverend tries to see the positive side of the juke joint activities, knowing that the jitterbuggers are basically decent kids who just need to blow off a little steam. But the preacher sees red when the club opens on the Sabbath, threatening to turn the good townsfolk into Sunday sinners. An upcoming dance contest seems destined to become a showdown between the powers of light and darkness.
Released : 1st-Feb-1940

I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket

Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.
Released : 23rd-Jan-1933

The Musical Doctor

Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.
Released : 28th-Oct-1932

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Sidney Easton

Movie Credits

His Woman

Fight That Ghost

Ouanga

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.Released : 3rd-Dec-1935

Paradise in Harlem

It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is applied only role in Harlem Vaudeville. One day he is the witness of a crime and the mobster strongly advised him to leave the town...Released : 1st-Jan-1939

Killer Diller

An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.Released : 1st-Jan-1948

The Story of Mr. Hobbs

Wayward

Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.Released : 19th-Feb-1932

The Conjure Woman

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.Released : Unknown

What Goes Up

An all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star Babe Matthews was married to Green and she was a very popular vocal artist whose repertoire contained everything from gospel to blues.Released : 13th-Apr-1939

Be Like Me

Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain.Released : 24th-Oct-1931

Murder on Lenox Avenue

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.Released : 20th-Mar-1932

Boarding House Blues

In order to save their home, tenants of a boarding house put on a show.Released : 1st-Sep-1948

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Sunday Sinners

I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket

Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.Released : 23rd-Jan-1933

The Musical Doctor

Rudy Vallee cures patients at Dr. Vallee's Musical Hospital by means of music.Released : 28th-Oct-1932

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