Sentences with phrase «blackface dance»
It was entertaining enough to hang around three stars for me, propelled by the fun chemistry between Astaire and Rogers (fun fact: I heard they hated each other in real life), but the completely unnecessary, racially insensitive Fred Astaire - in - blackface dance dropped the film an extra star.
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His performances are fiery and charismatic, and the internal conflicts he brings to the blackface act are visible both in his acting and dancing performances.
In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.
She doesn't have her glasses on the first time she watches it so is startled when she realizes that Astaire performs a solo dance referred to as the «Bojangles of Harlem» in blackface.
Lovell's disturbing assemblage Cake Walk (2008) explores a precursor to blackface in which slaves twirled canes and danced in high society garments to entertain their masters, who awarded a cake to the best performer.