Kindaris Pictures Podcast A.M. Warren

For the season three finale of the Kindaris Pictures Podcast, Adrienne M. Warren (A.G. Marie) sat down with her mother to talk classic movies!

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In mid-April of 1939, The Afro American spent some time with The Dandridge Sisters (actual sisters, Vivian and Dorothy Dandridge, and friend, Etta Jones) after an engagement at the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C. 

Cited Article: "The Afro Cameraman Spends a Day with the Dandridge Sisters)" - The Afro American - Apr. 22, 1939
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The "Roaring Twenties" was a period in which Black entertainers emerged as forces on the stage, in music, and on the screen. As we now know, talent didn't always grant fair or even kind treatment. Black performers that thought they'd gotten their big breaks on the American stage, screen, or radio, found themselves fleeing to Europe for better treatment and better opportunities by the 1930s. Hollywood's first Black Leading Lady, Nina Mae McKinney, was one of them.


In this episode, "A.G. Marie" shares news of Nina Mae McKinney's sixteen-week tour of Europe in 1936. She'd made Paris her home just a few years after the release of HALLELUJAH (1929). Her life and career were split between the United States and various European countries until she finally returned to New York in 1960. Believed to have become a domestic worker in her final years, Nina Mae McKinney died of a heart attack on May 3, 1967. She was 54 years old. 


Cited Article: "Bye Bye" - The Afro American (Mar. 28, 1936) - scroll downward and left


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Cabin in the Sky is now mostly loved as an iconic work in Black Cinema history. At the time of its release, however, not everyone felt so fondly about it.

Cited Article: "Term "Cabin" Film Downright Criminal" (The Afro American - Mar. 13, 1943)

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Hear the sweet story of how Allen "Farina" Hoskins got his start in the film industry.

Cited article: "At Home with Farina of "Our Gang" Fame" by Ruby Berkley Goodwin (Mar. 1, 1930)

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