The best Fredi Washington’s movies

Fredi Washington

Fredi Washington

23/12/1903- 28/06/1994
Today we present the best Fredi Washington’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Fredi Washington’s movies.
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Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1934
  • Character: Peola Johnson, Age 19
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

The Letter

The Letter
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/03/1929
  • Character: Opium Den Dancer (Uncredited)
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

Black Shadows on the Silver Screen

Black Shadows on the Silver Screen
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/04/1975
  • Character: Self (archive sound)
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/09/1933
  • Character: Undine
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado he finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

One Mile From Heaven

One Mile From Heaven
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/08/1937
  • Character: Flora Jackson
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

Ouanga

Ouanga
4.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 03/12/1935
  • Character: Klili Gordon
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.

Black and Tan

Black and Tan
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 08/12/1929
  • Character: Fredi - Duke's Girlfriend
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/08/1934
  • Character: Train Conductor's Wife
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.

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