Product Description
by Bob McCann (Author)
The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia provides 360 brief biographies of African American film and television acPER010000tresses from the silent era to 2009. It includes entries on well-known and nearly forgotten actresses, running the gamut from Academy Award and NAACP Image Award winners to B-film and blaxpoitation era stars. Each entry has a complete filmography of the actress's film, TV, music video or short film credits. The work also features more than 170 photographs, some of them rare images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Author Biography
The late Bob McCann was the editor-in-chief at Castle Connolly Graduate Medical Publishing in New York.
Number of Pages: 461
Dimensions: 1.1 x 10 x 3.46 IN
Publication Date: September 27, 2022
