Movies: Stepin Fetchit

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family....

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community....

A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case....

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly....

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice. In actuality, she is the daughter of a poor hotel maid, and in order to keep the boyfrie...

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas....

French language version of A TOUGH WINTER with a new cast....

Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby....

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"...

Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon. Lost film....

Soundie featuring Mable Lee and Stephin Fetchit....

Gloria Parker plays a station news agent who sings about a well-dressed man who comes to her asking directions to Broadway and Main. A janitor sweeps up around her as she sings. Intercut are scenes of her playing the vibraphone with her orchestra....

Spanish-language version of The Big Fight (1930)....

Stepin Fetchit in the Educational Pictures short "Slow Poke," doing the shtick that made him a millionaire in the 1930s....

Pretty Ruth Mason, who headlined at the Village sport for almost a year, is the heroine with Manhattan Paul, emcee at the club, as the guy who gets her, finally....