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Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Micheaux Book & Film Company produced some films, he is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the twentieth century and the most prominent producer of race films. He produced both silent films and "talkies" after the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors.

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Movies Made By Oscar Micheaux (17)

Sniff the Milk (2025)

Oscar's phone predicts the future. ...

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The Betrayal (1948)

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman. ...

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The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight. ...

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Lying Lips (1939)

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt. ...

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God's Step Children (1938)

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie ...

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Swing! (1938)

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer. ...

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Birthright (1938)

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children. ...

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Underworld (1937)

A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago - and soon enough meets her club co-owner boyfriend and his gangster pals. ...

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Murder In Harlem (1935)

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder. ...

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Temptation (1935)

Helen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just shun her, with the result that a beautiful girl with the figure of a ...

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Harlem After Midnight (1934)

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping. ...

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Ten Minutes to Live (1932)

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ...

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The Girl from Chicago (1932)

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. ...

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Veiled Aristocrats (1932)

A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage. ...

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The Exile (1931)

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl. ...

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The Darktown Revue (1931)

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time ...

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Movies Starring Oscar Micheaux (3)

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)

A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry. ...

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Murder In Harlem (1935)

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder. ...

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Ten Minutes to Live (1932)

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ...

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