Stepin Fetchit: The Double Life of Hollywood's First Black Movie Star by Mel Watkins
Stepin Fetchit: The Double Life of Hollywood's First Black Movie Star

Mel Watkins

Stepin Fetchit: The Double Life of Hollywood's First Black Movie Star

Mel Watkins

352 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography funny informative reflective medium-paced
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In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the be...

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