Sepia Cinderella (1947)
1947 · Feature film · 67 min · dir. Arthur H. Leonard
- Romance
Synopsis
Sepia Cinderella is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Arthur H. Leonard. The film is notable for musical numbers by vocalists Billy Daniels and Sheila Guyse, and for a brief guest appearance by former child star Freddie Bartholomew, who is onscreen as himself for five minutes, telling gags to recharge his post-war career. It was the film debut of Sidney Poitier, who had an uncredited role.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Arthur H. Leonard
- Writer
- Vincent Valentini
- Composer
- Charlie Shavers
- Cinematography
- George Weber
- Studio
- Herald Pictures Inc.
- Released
- 1947-07-25
- Running time
- 67 minutes
Cast & crew
- Arthur H. Leonard Director
Billy Daniels
Sheila Guyse- Tondaleyo
- Ruble Blakey
- Percy Verwayen
- Hilda Offley Thompson
- Dusty Freeman
George Williams
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · "Race" Film Fable Nicely Done · Poohbah70 · 2019-10-06
A typical and simplistic plot - a musician with loving, beautiful and talented girl becomes popular and gets led astray by a foxy, worldly beauty on her way further up. All the actors are good and those who are musicians are alsp great musically. This includes Billy Daniels and the beautiful Sheila Guyse as well as Ruble Blake and Deek Watson, leader of the Brown Dots vocal quartet. A very entertaining 79 minutea.
★★★ · Tuneful · picfixer · 2011-09-20
An entertaining all-black musical with a standard plot. Nominally costars Billy Daniel and gorgeous Sheila Guyse. Better acting and production values, and the print is in a better state of preservation, than most of the all-black films at IA. Good musical performances include two up-tempo swing instrumentals. An odd note is the appearance of Freddie Bartholomew to deliver standup jokes, sitting down. Acceptable video and audio. There are a few missing frames.
