BLACK in WHITE films. 🖤

  I have never really taken to musicals, I like a couple of them but people bursting into songs can sometimes be annoying. Its due to this fact that I have never seen Lena Horne in a film. I like her voice and have two of her records on vinyl. I was particularly proud to read she was the first African American to serve on the Screen Actors Guild. Hats off to the Lady in Red.

 I have only seen Mr Oscar Polk in two films;  Gone with the Wind (1939) and Reap the Wild Wind (1942). He played a slave in Gone with the Wind and a slave sailor in Reap the Wild Wind. Both roles had nick names synonymous with enslaved black men. Pork and Salt Meat.  I admire the way Polk played both parts as quiet obedient men with dignity. Previously he had appeared in several stage productions. It is a shame he was killed in a road traffic accident in 1949 as he could have given us so much more in his promising career.