Cast: Alec Lovejoy

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alec Lovejoy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Swing!

1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Cora Green · Larry Seymour · Hazel Diaz · Alec Lovejoy

Plot Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

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God's Step Children

1938 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Jacqueline Lewis · Ethel Moses · Alice B. Russell · Trixie Smith

Plot A young light-skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.

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Birthright

1939 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Micheaux

Cast Carman Newsome · Ethel Moses · Alec Lovejoy · Trixie Smith

Plot A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.

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Murder in Harlem

1935 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Micheaux · Clarence Williams

Cast Clarence Brooks · Dorothy Van Engle · Andrew Bishop · Alec Lovejoy

Plot A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

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St. Louis Blues (S)

1929 · Movie · 16 min. · United States

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Bessie Smith · Jimmy Mordecai · Isabel Washington · Hall Johnson Choir

Plot In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus...

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Murder on Lenox Avenue

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Dreifuss

Cast Mamie Smith · Alec Lovejoy · Norman Astwood · Augustus Smith

Plot Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge.

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