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    Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 – June 28, 1994) was an American stage and film actress, civil rights activist, performer, and...
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    Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, and Fredi Washington. The film was originally released by Universal Pictures on November...
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  • football striker Fredi González (born 1964), Cuban current manager of the Atlanta Braves Fredi Walker, American actress Fredi Washington (1903-1994), African-American...
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  • performing as a jazz band, and was also the film debut of actress Fredi Washington. The film is thought to express the emergence of African-American artists...
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  • Pictures in 1934. The film stars jazz bandleader Cab Calloway and actress Fredi Washington. In 2001, the film was reissued by Kino International in the DVD collection...
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    launched the careers of Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills, Fredi Washington and Paul Robeson, and was so popular it caused "curtain time traffic...
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    in the US and UK), and co-starring Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington and Ruby Elzy. The film was made outside of the Hollywood studio system...
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  • Patrick. The film stars Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington, Joan Carroll and Ralf Harolde. The film was released on August 18...
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  • as The Love Wanga, is a voodoo-themed 1936 American film starring Fredi Washington. George Terwilliger wrote and directed the film. The film's themes...
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    married Isabel Washington (1908–2007), an African American singer and nightclub entertainer. She was the sister of actress Fredi Washington. Powell adopted...
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  • American actor Dinah Washington (1924–1963), American singer Eric Washington (disambiguation), multiple people Fredi Washington (1903–1994), American...
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    night Opening night audience including Fredi Washington (left) Opening night audience including Fredi Washington Macbeth with the Priest and cripples seeking...
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  • Calling You, or in voodoo films like Ouanga (1936), which starred Fredi Washington as the mistress of a plantation owner, but even those roles were largely...
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  • Fred, Fredi or Freddie Washington may refer to: Fred Washington (offensive tackle) (1944–1985), American football offensive tackle Fred Washington (defensive...
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  • along with two actresses from the production, Georgette Harvey and Fredi Washington. The cast also included Joey Faye and Philip Loeb, performing skits...
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  • radio commentator Sam Wanamaker, actor Theodore Ward, playwright Fredi Washington, actor Margaret Webster, actress, director and producer Orson Welles...
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    Heaven (1937), he played a romantic lead with African-American actress Fredi Washington after Hollywood had relaxed its taboo against such roles for Blacks...
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    (1946-08-16) August 16, 1946 (age 77) Ruth Warrick 1916–2005 Fredi Washington 1903–1994 Kerry Washington born (1977-01-31) January 31, 1977 (age 47) Ethel Waters...
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  • 1902-1953 Stepin Fetchit  – 1902-1985 Mantan Moreland – 1902-1973 Fredi Washington – 1903-1994 James Baskett – 1904-1948 Pigmeat Markham – 1904-1981 Eddie...
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    congressman, and his former wife Isabel Powell, sister of actress Fredi Washington Paul Robeson, actor Carole Simpson, former ABC News anchor Louis Wade...
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  • Wokalek and Lotte Flack as Joan in Pope Joan (2009) Dorothy Black and Fredi Washington as Peola Johnson in Imitation of Life (1934) Karin Dicker and Susan...
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    classic song, "Reefer Man", a tune about a man who smokes marijuana. Fredi Washington was cast as Calloway's love interest in Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)...
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    Eslanda Goode Robeson (category Actresses from Washington, D.C.)
    Other affairs affecting their relationship were those with actresses Fredi Washington and Peggy Ashcroft. Robeson's long-term liaison with Yolanda Jackson...
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  • as black and worked to serve his community. Imitation of Life star Fredi Washington portrayed a woman who passed in the famous film, but was against passing...
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  • Chibnall & Petley 2002, p. 59. Doherty, Thomas "The Code Before 'Da Vinci'" Washington Post (May 20, 2006) Worland 2007, p. 68. AFI 1993, p. 1090. Erickson,...
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  • Robert T. Washington, a postal worker, as well as her four brothers and four sisters. After their mother died, she and her older sister Fredi were sent...
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  • Legacy.com, Inc. November 19, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2022 – via The Washington Post, Savannah Morning News. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tattnall, Josiah" ...
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    black community in the industry. The founding members of NAG were Fredi Washington, W. C. Handy, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson...
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    Senator from Texas DJ Ware, football player Raphael Warnock, US Senator Fredi Washington, actress Douglass Watson, actor James Moore Wayne, judge James Webb...
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  • Black and Tan, directed by Dudley Murphy, starring Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1928 stage play...
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