In 1943, he became the first African American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun.

Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.'. Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences 'because, in a way, it was every black man's story. In regards to the Lafayette Theatre's staging of Dr. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood and performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. He was acting in New York by the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players. He acted for more than sixty years appearing in more than 150 movies.īorn in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received an international law degree in 1911. Muse was the first Negro to 'star' in a film. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. 'She has nightmares about speeding trains, a hand clamped over her mouth, and merry widows waltzing, waltzing waltzing into hell.' Charlie survives but cannot forget.Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply.Sandoz (Sandoz_Iscariot17) Fandoms: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Language: English Words: 14,136 Chapters: 9/9 Collections: 1 Comments: 11 Kudos: 20 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 375 And by the time she did, he'd already sprung into action. She just couldn't figure out what it was. She may have possessed far more precocity than wisdom, but she knew there was something amiss about Uncle Charlie.

After all, there was also Ann, an eleven-year-old bookworm and smartaleck. Maybe Charlie wasn't the only person who suspected that her uncle had a secret. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive WarningsĪnn Newton has so much on her mind.FuzzyBlueStockings Fandoms: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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