Stepin Fetchit : The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry - Mel Watkins

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Stepin Fetchit

The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry

By: Mel Watkins

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Paperback | 14 November 2006 | Edition Number 1

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368 Pages

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20.6 x 12.8 x 1.9

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The definitive biography of an iconic and controversial figure of American popular culture: Stepin Fetchit, the first African-American movie star. First time in paperback.

In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era's most popular comic stereotype-the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as "the best actor that the talking movies have produced," and Mel Watkins's meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor's life, from Perry's tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry's prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment.

Industry Reviews

"Beautifully evokes the 'times' of Stepin Fetchit, providing a surprisingly fresh look at the complex history of blackness and the silver screen." -Entertainment Weekly"Commendable . . . thorough and authoritative."-The New York Times"Enthralling. . . .Watkins goes back . . . to the vaudeville road, the black-theater circuit, the tent shows, dance clubs, burlesque houses, carnivals, cabarets, race riots and lynch mobs. Stepin Fetchit is a shadow history of performance as survival." -Harper's "Fascinating. . . . An engrossing study of Perry." -Essence

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