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Clarence Muse

Clarence Muse
Nome de nascimento: Clarence Muese
Data de nascimento: 13 de outubro de 1889 ( 90 anos)
Falecimento: 13 de outubro de 1979
Atividades: Ator
Local de nascimento: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Anos ativo: 1921 - 1979

Clarence Muse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first Negro to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years appearing in more than 150 movies. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received an international law degree in 1911. He was acting in New York by the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players. Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood and performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. In regards to the Lafayette Theatre's staging of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences "because, in a way, it was every black man's story. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.". Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor; he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. In 1943, he became the first African American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun. Muse was also the co-writer of several notable songs. In 1931, with Leon René and Otis René, Muse wrote "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", also known as "Sleepy Time Down South". The song was sung by Nina Mae McKinney in the movie Safe in Hell (1931), and later became a signature song of Louis Armstrong. He was the major star in Broken Earth (1936), which related the story of a black sharecropper whose son miraculously recovers from fever through the father's fervent prayer. Shot on a farm in the South with nonprofessional actors (except for Muse), the film's early scenes focused in a highly realistic manner on the incredible hardship of black farmers, with plowing scenes. In 1938, Muse co-starred with boxer Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth, the fictional story of a champion boxer which featured an all black cast. Muse and Langston Hughes wrote the script for Way Down South (1939). Muse performed in Broken Strings (1940), as a concert violinist who opposes the desire of his son to play "swing". From 1955-56, Muse was a regular on the weekly TV version of Casablanca, playing Sam the pianist (a part he was under consideration for in the original Warner Brothers film), and in 1959, he played Peter, the Honey Man, in Porgy and Bess. He appeared on Disney's TV miniseries The Swamp Fox. Other film credits include Buck and the Preacher (1972), The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) and as Gazenga's Assistant, "Snapper" in Car Wash (1976). His last acting role was in The Black Stallion (1979).

Filmografia ( 20 obras)

Atuação em filmes

Ano Nota Título Personagem
1979 - O Corcel Negro Snoe
1976 - Car Wash: Onde Acontece de Tudo Snapper
1972 - Um por Deus, Outro pelo Diabo Cudjo
1953 - O Sol Brilha na Imensidade Uncle Zack
1947 - Os Inconquistáveis Jason
1947 - Minha Morena Linda Second Man on Death Row (uncredited)
1945 - Almas Perversas Ben - Bank Janitor (uncredited)
1944 - O Regresso Daquele Homem Porter on Train (uncredited)
1944 - Pacto de Sangue Man (uncredited)
1943 - Horas de Tormenta Horace
1943 - O Diabo Disse Não Jasper (uncredited)
1943 - Sherlock Holmes em Washington George
1943 - A Sombra de uma Dúvida Pullman Porter
1942 - O Cisne Negro Margaret's Servant (uncredited)
1942 - E a Vida Continua Supreme Court Doorkeeper (uncredited)
1941 - O Fantasma Invisível Evans the Butler
1936 - Magnólia - O Barco das Ilusões Sam
1933 - Voando para o Rio Caddy in Haiti (uncredited)
1932 - If I Had a Million Death Row Singing Prisoner (uncredited)
1931 - Safe in Hell Newcastle

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