This post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Today is the birthday of Ernest Whitman (1893-1954). A veteran of black vaudeville, burlesque and revues, his first film was the 1934 Vitaphone short King for a Day with Bill Robinson and Dusty Fletcher. John Ford cast him in The Prisoner of Shark Island [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:44AM on February 21, 2013