Alicia Meer - Turner Classic Movies

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Sidewalks of New York (2001)

Celebrity (1998)

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

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Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Ain't No Nothin' To Buy

Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) And Zekiel Became A Preacher

Biography

Filmography

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Sidewalks of New York (2001)

Celebrity (1998)

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

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Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Ain't No Nothin' To Buy Director King Vidor's on-location opening, introducing the Johnsons including Zekiel (Daniel L. Haynes) and Mammy (Fanny Belle DeKnight), dialogue likely by Ransom Rideout, the African-American playwright Vidor hired, in the MGM "all-colored" musical Hallelujah!, 1929.

Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) And Zekiel Became A Preacher Zekiel (Daniel L. Haynes) in a wrathful public mourning, over the death of his brother brought about by his own sinful behavior, Harry Gray as Pappy the preacher, ending with the spiritual by Henry Thacker Burleigh, from King Vidor's Hallelujah, 1929.

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