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The First African American Movie Star, Lincoln Perry, A.k.a. Stepin Fetchit, Is An Iconic Figure In The History Of American Popular Culture. In The Late 1920s And 30s He Was Both Renowned And Reviled For His Surrealistic Portrayals Of The Era's Most Popular Comic Stereotype; The Lazy, Shiftless Negro. After His Breakthrough Role In The 1929 Film Hearts In Dixie, Perry Was Hailed As The Best Actor That The Talking Pictures Have Produced By The Critic Robert Benchley. Having Run Away From His Key West Home In His Early Teens, Perry Found Success As A Vaudevillian Before Making His Way To California. The Tall, Lanky Actor Became The First Millionaire Black Movie Star When He Appeared In A String Of Hit Movies As The Whiny, Ever-perplexed, Slow-talking Comic Sidekick. Perry Was The Highest Paid And Most Popular Black Comedian In America During Hollywood's Golden Age, But His Ongoing Battles With Movie Executives, His Rowdy Offscreen Behavior, And His Extravagant Spending Kept Him In Gossip Column Headlines. Perry's Spendthrift Ways And Exorbitant Lifestyle Hastened His Decline And, In 1947, Having Squandered Or Given Away His Fortune, He Was Forced To Declare Bankruptcy. In 1964 Perry

Author

Watkins, Mel, 1940-

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375423826

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.6 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14