The Harlem Globetrotters (1950) — (Movie Clip) What’s All The Fuss About

Name: The Harlem Globetrotters (1950) — (Movie Clip) What’s All The Fuss About
Uploaded: 2020-09-21T00:00:00-04:00
Duration: 1 min 44 s
Description: College hoop star Billy (played by Billy Brown, a non-actor basketball pro at the time) tells his girlfriend Ann (Dorothy Dandridge, second-billed after Thomas Gomez, who pays the team founder Abe Saperstein, in her first speaking appearance) that he’s leaving to join the barnstorming title-team, in The Harlem Globetrotters, 1951.

College hoop star Billy (played by Billy Brown, a non-actor basketball pro at the time) tells his girlfriend Ann (Dorothy Dandridge, second-billed after Thomas Gomez, who pays the team founder Abe Saperstein, in her first speaking appearance) that he’s leaving to join the barnstorming title-team, in The Harlem Globetrotters, 1951.

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