Hall Johnson Choir - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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The Peanut Man (1947)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Syncopation (1942)

Lady for a Night (1942)

Heart of the Golden West (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

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Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All But One Tree

Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Here Comes De Lawd

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Peanut Man (1947)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Syncopation (1942)

Lady for a Night (1942)

Heart of the Golden West (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Road to Zanzibar (1941)

Meet John Doe (1941)

In Old Missouri (1940)

Swanee River (1940)

Saint Louis Blues (1939)

Way Down South (1939)

My Old Kentucky Home (1938)

Rainbow on the River (1936)

Follow Your Heart (1936)

Banjo on My Knee (1936)

Hearts Divided (1936)

The Green Pastures (1936)

Music (Feature Film)

Lost Horizon (1937)

Music (Short)

The Song of a Nation (1947)

Life Events

Videos

Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All But One Tree Rex Ingram performing two roles in the same scene, as Adam and as “De Lawd,” visiting his newly created earth, and producing Myrtle Anderson as Eve, the angels observing from above, in The Green Pastures, 1936, from Marc Connelly’s controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Here Comes De Lawd From a scene in which an African-American Louisiana Sunday school teacher describes heaven to his pupils, Gabriel (Oscar Polk) introduces Rex Ingram as “De Lawd,” visiting his angels, early in the Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Marc Connelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures, 1936.

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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