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'Kentucky Minstrels' is a 1934 British musical film directed by John Baxter. It was made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for release by Universal Pictures.Wood p.82 Scott and Whaley, the stars of the film, were an African American comedy duo, and the first black performers to take a leading role in a British film.[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Black_in_the_British_Frame/YYaryaqLfd4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22scott+and+whaley%22&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover Stephen Bourne, 'Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television', Bloomsbury, 2005, , pp.2-4] It also featured American actress Nina Mae McKinney. The show derived from the BBC radio programme, 'The Kentucky Minstrels', first broadcast in 1933, which was written and performed by the same team.[https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/38 "BBC's Kentucky Minstrels", 'Notable Kentucky African Americans Database']. Retrieved 29 March 2021

Cast



* Harry Scott as Pussy-Foot

* Eddie Whaley as Cuthbert

* C. Denier Warren as Danny Goldman

* April Vivian as Maggie

* Wilson Coleman as Ben

* Madge Brindley as Landlady

* Roddy Hughes as Town Clerk

* Norman Greene as Massa Johnson

* Terence Casey

* Edgar Driver

* Jack Gerrard

* Leslie Hatton and His White Coons as Themselves

* Nina Mae McKinney

* Harry S. Pepper and His Band as Themselves

* Leo Sheffield

* Debroy Somers

* Polly Ward

* Josie Woods as Dancer

References





Bibliography



* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.

* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.


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