Langston Hughes - Turner Classic Movies

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Black Nativity (2013)

Source Material

Way Down South (1939)

Original story and Screenplay

Stormy Weather (1943)

Way Down South (1939)

Looking For Langston (1990)

Seeing Red (1984)

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Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Bayou Lovelle

Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Good Ground

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Black Nativity (2013)

Source Material

Way Down South (1939)

Original story and Screenplay

Music (Feature Film)

Stormy Weather (1943)

Way Down South (1939)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Looking For Langston (1990)

Seeing Red (1984)

Writer (Special)

Cora Unashamed (2000)

Music (Special)

Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing (1997)

The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs (1995)

Special Thanks (Special)

Cora Unashamed (2000)

Misc. Crew (Special)

And Every Man Is Free: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (1984)

Black Is a Beautiful Woman (1974)

Life Events

Videos

Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Bayou Lovelle Credits notable for their content, co-star Clarence Muse and poet Langston Hughes sharing original screenplay credit, framing scenes at the plantation then Muse, his owner Ralph Morgan, and Edwin Maxwell with exposition, in producer Sol Lesser's musical one-off Way Down South, 1939.

Way Down South (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Good Ground Last piece of a long production number, featuring the Hall Johnson choir, song by screenwriters Clarence Muse and Langston Hughes, ending in a plot twist, as benevolent plantation owner Reid (Ralph Morgan) dies in a mishap, his son (Bobby Breen) suddenly the man, in Way Down South, 1939.

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