by Donald Bogle
Waters, Ethel. To Me It’s Wonderful. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Waters, Ethel, and Charles Samuels. His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1951.
Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture 1920–1930. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.
White, Walter. How Far the Promised Land? New York: Viking Press, 1955.
Also
Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America’s Black Female Superstars. Episodes 1 and 2.
PBS/German Educational Television Broadcast, 1989.
Oral History Archives. Institute of Jazz Studies. Rutgers University.
Waters, Ethel. Just a Little Talk with Ethel Waters. Word, 1977.
Index
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Abatino, Count Giuseppe Pepito, 163
Abbott, George, 336
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film), 334, 335
Abyssinia, 140
Actors’ Equity, 348
Adams, Lane, 497
Adams, Maude, 315
Adler, Stella, 449
Africana, 136, 143–49, 151–52, 155–58, 160, 176, 208, 402
“After the Ball,” 57
Aiken, Buddy, 67, 81
Aiken, Gus, 67, 81
Ailey, Alvin, 125
“Ain’t Goin’ Marry,” 66
“Ain’t It de Truth,” 382
“Ain’t Misbehavin’,” 189
Akst, Harry, 109, 112, 170
Alabamians, 247
Albee, Edward, 125
Albee, E. F., 106
Aldridge, Ira, 137
Alexander, William, 376
“All Coons Look Alike to Me,” 137
Allen, Billie, 500, 508
Allen, Fred, 235
Allen, Gracie, 235
Allen, Steve, 479, 484, 519
Allen, Vera, 261
Allen, Walter, 69
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (play), 52, 104
All My Sons (Miller), 441
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 191
All the King’s Men (film), 456
Altman, Robert, 504
American Negro Historical Society, 6
American Revue, The (radio show), 229, 234–35, 245
“Am I Blue?,” x, 170–73, 181, 196, 215, 241, 331, 413, 422, 466, 476, 542
Am I Blue? (film proposal), 427
Amos ’n’ Andy Show (radio and TV show), 168, 410, 461
Amsterdam News, 278, 357, 370, 377, 396, 426, 460, 483
Anderson, Albert, 383
Anderson, Blanche (cousin), 10, 12
Anderson, Charles (uncle), 6, 41
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,” 347, 359–60, 362–64, 373, 377, 378
Anderson, Edith “Ching” (aunt), 7, 9–11, 16
Anderson, Ernest, 392
Anderson, Ivie, 119, 211, 214, 216, 230, 366, 525
Anderson, Judith, 303, 324, 427, 440
Anderson, Louise (mother). See Howard, Louise Anderson, 244
Anderson, Louis (grandfather), 6
Anderson, Marian, 251, 299, 306, 307, 321, 336, 347, 365, 428, 463
Anderson, Maxwell, 303
Anderson, Sarah Harris “Sally” (grandmother) 6–8, 10–13, 15–16, 76, 273, 332, 432, 434, 448, 454, 461–62, 520
Anderson, Tom (nephew), 10
Anderson, Viola “Vi” (aunt), 4, 6, 8, 10–12, 41, 333
Andrews, Avis, 195, 250, 459
Anhalt, Edward, 469–70
Anna Lucasta (play), 418
Anthony Adverse (novel), 202
Apollo Theatre (Harlem), 239, 257–59, 280–81, 292, 336–37
Arcadians, 247, 327
Archibald, William, Jr., 535
Arden, Eve, 269
Arlen, Harold, xii, 185, 211–13, 260, 368, 380, 382, 384, 397, 478, 487, 491
Armstrong, Lil, 80
Armstrong, Louis, 68, 72, 80, 84, 130, 168–69, 172–73, 207, 211, 214, 254, 283, 293, 305, 307, 336, 338, 346–47, 355, 359, 373, 397, 418–19
Arnold, Elliott, 318
Aronson, Boris, 338–39, 342–43
Astaire, Adele, 206
Astaire, Fred, 206, 219, 482, 537
As Thousands Cheer, xi, 216, 218–30, 232, 233, 239, 244–45, 247, 249–56, 260–62, 280, 340, 455
“As Time Goes By,” 341, 392
Astor, Mary, 522
At Home Abroad, 255–56, 259–69, 275–77, 280, 287, 373
At Home with Ethel Waters, 476, 504
Atkins, Boyd, 116
Atkinson, Brooks, 191–92, 228–29, 266, 269, 316–18, 336, 344, 453
“At the New Jump Steady Ball,” 61, 88
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The, 463
Autry, Gene, 536
Babes in Arms, 339
“Baby, What Else Can I Do?,” 331
Baclanova, Olga, 183
Bagnold, Enid, 301
Bailey, Bill, 291, 373
Bailey, Buster, 116
Bailey, Mildred, 119, 340
Bailey, Pearl, 119, 283, 425, 456, 502, 526, 532, 540
Baker, Addie, 382
Baker, Belle, 144, 188
Baker, George Pierce, 272–73
Baker, Josephine, xi, 58–59, 78, 110–11, 113–15, 123, 126, 136, 144–45, 163, 178–79, 183, 225, 238, 263, 269–70, 277–79, 524
Baker, Willie, 110
Balanchine, George, xii, 277, 338–39, 343, 345
Baldwin, James, 125
Ballard, Gene, 181
Baltimore Afro-American, 69, 77, 174, 176, 198, 242
Bamboola, 62
“Banana Maidens,” 145
Bandanna Land, 140
Band Wagon, The, 260
Bankhead, Tallulah, 179, 183, 313, 322, 328, 395
Barbara McNair Show, The (TV show), 525
Barber, Georgie, 54
Barker, Danny, 305, 331
Barnes, Binnie, 233
Barnes, Howard, 417
Barnet, Charlie, 355
Barnett, Claude A., 149
Barr, Richard, 476
Barrows, Cliff, 498, 537
Barrymore, Ethel, 199, 303, 321, 322, 349, 433, 437, 443, 445
Barrymore, John, 336
Barthe, Richmond, 320
Baruch, Bernard, 446
Basie, Count, xii, 68, 173, 297–98, 359, 366, 375, 398, 425
Baskett, James “Jimmy,” 258, 280
Bass, Charlotta, 254
Bass, Paul, 144
Bassman, George, 380
Bauman, Albert, 361
Baxter, Laura, 237
Beane, Reginald, 67, 305–7, 310, 329, 331, 354–55, 368, 393, 400, 403, 409, 422, 474, 476, 479, 481–83, 502, 504, 518, 540
Beavers, Louise, 299, 362, 372, 383, 400, 401, 419, 421, 461
Bechet, Sidney, 80
Beckett, Margaret, 145
Beebe, Lucius, 101, 277
Behrman, S. N., 301
Beiderbecke, Bix, 120
Belafonte, Harry, xii, 481, 525
Belasco, David, 133, 142
Belle of Bridgeport, The, 139
Benchley, Robert, 197
Bennett, Joan, 287
Bennett, Tony, 214
Benny, Jack, 106, 152, 169, 235, 359, 372
Bergen, Edgar, 393
Bergman, Ingrid, 176, 341, 369
Berle, Milton, 214, 406, 466
Berlin, Irving, xii, 84, 185, 212, 216–18, 220–21, 223–25, 227–28, 244, 340, 347, 466, 540
Bernhardt, Sarah, 152
Bernice (Wilder), 500
Bernie, Ben, 206, 281, 293, 308
Berry, Tommy, 326
Berry Brothers, 178, 189, 191, 195
Best, Willie, 373, 377, 397
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 193, 320, 454, 455
Beulah (TV show), 455, 457–61, 463
Big Sea, The (Hughes), 130
B
illboard, 335
“Birmingham Bertha,” 170–73, 181
Birmingham Jug Band, 92
Birth of a Nation, The (film), 431
Black, Cecil, 189, 195, 196
“Black and Blue,” 189
Black and Tan Fantasy (film), 168
Black April (Peterkin), 199
Blackbirds of 1928, 50, 168, 178, 188
of 1930, 187–94
of 1939, 302, 383
Black Bottom Revue, The, 121
Black Boy (play), 52, 310
Blackburn, Joyce, 530
Black Cargo, 136, 144
Black Swan Jazz Masters, 67, 75, 81, 83, 84
Black Swan Records, 61–67, 70–71, 74, 79, 81, 88, 96–97, 115, 182, 202
Black Swan Troubadours, 67, 70, 74–75, 77–79, 82–85
Blair, Betsy, 264, 375
Blair, Janet, 481
Blake, Eubie, 52, 58, 79, 104, 108, 167, 189, 191, 476
Bledsoe, Jules, 143, 207
Blue, Ben, 304
Blue Bird records, 305, 327, 331
Blue Holiday, 415–18
“Blue Skies,” 167
Bluett, Lennie, 98, 101, 343, 360, 373, 376, 385–86, 399–401
Body and Soul (film), 314
Bogart, Humphrey, 341
Bolger, Ray, 260
Bolks, Dick, 538
Bolton, Whitney, 476
Bontemps, Arna, 355
Booth, Shirley, 457, 473, 475
Borden Show, The (TV show), 427
Born Black, 156
Born to Dance (film), 264
Borsten, Orin, 472–73
Borzage, Frank, 398
Boswell Sisters, 231
Bottomland, 142
Bowden, Charles, 476
Bowes, Major, 193
Boyer, Charles, 360, 372
Boykin, Juliette, 332
Bradford, Perry, 59
Branch, Eva, 99–100
Branton, Geri Pate Nicholas, 264, 358, 371, 375
Brashear, George, 88
Brashear, Lorenzo, 67
Braxton and Nugent, 20, 27–29
“Bread and Gravy,” 331, 347, 524
Break the $250,000 Bank (TV show), 489–90
Brecher, Leo, 257
Breen, Joseph, 438
Brennan, Owen, 427
Brice, Fannie, 49, 106, 120, 152, 260, 269, 277–78
Bricktop, 178–79
Brinn, Jessie, 160
“Broadcast Blues,” 60
Broadway Melody of 1936 and 1938 (films), 264
Broderick, Helen, 218–20, 229, 244
Brookins, Tommy, 395, 402, 407–9, 411
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,” 209
“Brother You’ve Got Me Wrong,” 116
Broun, Heywood, 193
Brown, Ada, 193, 207, 238, 398
Brown, Al, 178
Brown, Anne Wiggins, 270, 310, 348
Brown, Claude, 463
Brown, George, 418
Brown, James, 257
Brown, Joe E., 171
Brown, John Mason, 196
Brown, Lawrence, 214
Brown, L. B., 254
Brown, Louis, 41
Brown, Marie Joe, 407
“Brown Baby,” 66, 96
Brown Buddies, 50, 190
Brown Sisters, 254, 257, 280–81, 287
Brush, Katherine, 201, 271, 274
Bryan, William Jennings, 4
Bryant, Willie, 310, 314, 329, 336, 355, 416
Brynner, Yul, 502
Bubbles, John. See Buck and Bubbles; Sublett, John “Bubbles”
Bubbling Over (film), 233, 243
Buck and Bubbles, 56, 72, 174, 189, 211, 216, 257, 302, 359, 373. See also Sublett, John “Bubbles”; Washington, Ford Lee
Buckley, Gail, 214, 342, 382, 385, 387–89
Buffalo, Gene, 413–14
Burke, Georgia, 331–32, 341, 355, 408
Burnett, Rev. J.C., 121
Burns, George, 235
Burns, Sandy, 74–75
Burns, Tommy, 73
Burrows, Vinnie, 500
Burton, Richard, 176, 179
Bush, Anita, 141
Bushell, Garvin, 64–68, 75, 77, 81, 331
Bushman, Francis X., 522
Butler, Charles, 288
Butler and Robinson, 50
Butterbeans and Susie, 17, 31, 56, 162, 187, 296, 355, 360, 419
“By Myself,” 260
Bynner, Witter, 149
Bynum, George, 250
“Cabin in the Sky,” 340, 384, 393, 422, 467
Cabin in the Sky, 335, 338–49, 353–54, 419
film, x, 369, 372–74, 376, 379–93, 396–98, 403, 408, 420, 425, 432, 443, 513, 537, 541
Cagney, James, 359, 372
Cain, Billy, 156, 167
Cairo (film), 367–71, 383, 392
Caldwell, John, 540
California Supreme Court, 420
Calloway, Cab, 68, 210, 212, 239, 275, 299, 308, 325, 328, 336, 338, 340, 372, 376, 398, 482
Camelot, 217
Cameron, Lucille, 73
Campbell, Edgar, 65
Canova, Judy, 269
“Can’t Help Loving That Man of Mine,” 428
Cantor, Eddie, 115, 308, 335, 425
Capone, Al, 206
Capone, Ralph, 206
Capote, Truman, 125
Cardinal Records, 61–63
Carey, John, 99
Carib Gold (film), 483, 501
Carmen Jones (film), 163, 441, 482
Carmichael, Hoagy, 331
Carpenter, Thelma, 424–25, 446, 456, 482
Carroll, Diahann, 481, 520
Carroll, Earl, 188, 259
Carson, Eddie, 110
Carson, Joanne, 536
Carson, Johnny, 534
Carter, Ben (actor), 362, 372, 376, 392, 415, 420
Carter, Benny (musician), 68, 247, 331
Carter, Frank, 219
Carter, Jack, 141
Caruso, Enrico, 336
Casablanca (film), 341, 392
Casey, Pat, 103, 105
Castle, Vernon and Irene, 217
Cato, Minto, 189, 191
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film), 503
Cavalcade of America (radio show), 468
Channing, Carol, 228, 503
Chaplin, Charlie, 75, 336
Chapman, John, 453
Charisse, Cyd, 433, 537
Charles, Ray, 331
“Charleston,” 142
Charlie Chan (film series), 190
Chase, Ilka, 475
Check and Double Check (film), 168
Chesterfield Supper Club, The (TV show), 466
Chicago American, 124
Chicago Defender, 69–70, 79, 81, 82, 176, 184, 203, 229, 234, 249, 256, 263, 275, 287, 325, 341, 377, 395–96, 409, 491
Chicago Evening America, 256
Chicago Herald and Examiner, 104
“Chinese Blues,” 54
Chitterson, Herman, 67
Chocolate Dandies, The, 136, 142
Chocolate Drop, The, 104
Churchill, Lord Peter, 319
civil rights movement, 320–21, 334–36, 348, 376–78, 417–21, 426–7, 467, 486–87, 495, 522–23, 532–33
Clark, Horace, 420
Clarke, Grant, 170
Clarke, Judge Thurmond, 420–21
Clay, Shirley, 305
Clayton, Lou, 177
Cleopatra (film), 176
Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk, 138
Clurman, Harold, xii, 441–42, 447–52, 465–66
Cockrell, Eustace, 380
Coffin, T. Eugene, 531
Cohn, Harry, 469–72
Colbert, Claudette, 372
Cole, Bob, 138–41
Cole, Maria, 481, 484, 505
Cole, Nat “King,” 234, 251, 257, 473, 481, 505
Coleman, Warren, 483
Collyer, June, 287
Columbia Records, 96, 115–21, 136, 149–50, 156, 158�
�59, 230–31, 533
Come Back, Little Sheba (play and film), 457, 473
Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare), 315
Come to the Stable (film), 456
“Come Up and See Me Sometime,” 230
Command Performance (radio show), 393
Como, Perry, 466
Compson, Betty, 171
Condee, Judge Newcomb, 410
Connelly, Marc, 186, 260, 380
Connerly, Edgar, 221
Cook, Will Marion, 89, 109–10, 113, 138–41
Cooke, Marvel, 223, 229, 258
Cooper, Gary, 359, 369, 372
Cooper, Jackie, 354
Cooper, Ralph, 258
Corley, Bob, 455
Cornell, John, 355
Cornell, Katharine, 303, 313, 321, 328, 349, 367, 398
Correll, Charles, 410
Cort, John, 151–52
Cotton, Joseph, 412
Cotton Club, 51, 68, 73, 188, 210–26, 247, 280, 287, 291–92
Cotton Club Parade, 214
Covan, Dewey, 171
Covan, Willie, 171
Coward, Noël, 125, 308
Cox, Edward Finch, 531
Cox, Ida, 60, 96
Crain, Jeanne, 433–34, 436–38, 444–45, 456, 534
Crash Dive (film), 392
Crawford, Broderick, 219
Crawford, James, 360
Crawford, Joan, 371, 473
“Crazy Blues,” 59
Crazy Show, The, 304
Crippen, Katie, 64
Croomes, Joan, 34, 342–43, 386–87, 513–17, 519–21, 523, 526–29, 533, 539, 542
Crosby, Bing, 112, 120, 216, 231, 353, 393, 482
Crosby, John, 459
Crosland, Alan, 171
Crouse, Russell, 193
Crowther, Bosley, 472
Cry, the Beloved Country (play), 314
Cullen, Countee, 51, 52, 121, 124–26, 193, 320
Cunningham, Evelyn, 490
Curtis, Constance, 408
Dali, Salvador, 125
Daly, James, 499
“Dance Hall Hostess,” 196, 504
Dancer, Earl (second “husband”), 87, 97–109, 112–13, 115, 123, 127, 129, 132–36, 143–44, 146, 148, 150–58, 161–63, 166–67, 172, 175–76, 185, 215, 218, 236, 248, 252, 284, 292, 305, 376, 402, 427, 520
Dancer, Eliza Pruitt, 97
Dancer, John, 97
Dancer, John, Jr., 97, 160
Dancer, Lillian, 97
Dancer, Maurice, 97, 160, 175, 238, 240
Dancer, Olga, 97
Dance (TV show), 481
“Dancing in the Dark,” 260
Dandridge, Dorothy, 163, 173, 251–52, 264, 346, 359, 371, 373, 375, 389, 401, 425, 433, 441, 479, 482, 485, 505, 525
Dandridge, Ruby, 371, 373, 400
Dandridge, Vivian, 373
Daniel Boone (TV show), 530
Daniels, Billy, 536
Darkeydom, 62
Darktown Follies, 57
Dark Wood (film), 427
Darn That Dream, 335
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 320–21, 428