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jahlaune (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Wow this is Nina Mae McKinney. This was Billie Holidays first husbands first wife! Jimmy Monroe I saw this movie some years ago and my mother told me she was like the first black movie star in the late 20s a good clip!
wootywoo83 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thank you!
santopec (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Thank you; what a sad story!!She was a great artist, I won't forget her.
byronbenguche (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is forgotten history.I saw this movie years ago wwhile i was in film school Nina B.Mckinney was the Halle Berry of her time to bad no one really knows about her.
blackfemale2930 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
my favorite part
startak14g3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hollywood's first black,actress, and sex symbol,she was called the black garbo.She made other films but this was her biggest,later affter this film, she could'nt find much film work,without playing a maid.she moved to london, then later greece,to sing, were she was known has queen of the night life.She died on may 3,1967 in new york.lost and mostly forgotten. |