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Stepin Fetchit war ein US-amerikanischer Komiker, Schauspieler und Sänger. Der Afroamerikaner erreichte in den 1930er-Jahren Berühmtheit mit der stereotypen Darstellung des „faulen Schwarzen“, weshalb er als kontroverse Figur der amerikanischen Filmgeschichte gilt.
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.
Stepin Fetchit became the first African-American actor to become a millionaire, but he mishandled his fortune through lavish overspending and was bankrupt by 1947. In the 1940s his career in mainstream "white" cinema was essentially over, and he crossed over into "race" films, movies made specifically for (and sometimes by) African-Americans ...
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5. Aug. 2021 · Learn about Lincoln Perry, the actor who created the character of Stepin Fetchit, a lazy and stereotypical Black comic relief in the 1920s and 1930s. Discover how he became rich and famous, but also faced backlash and hardship due to his role.
6. März 2006 · Although he never won an Oscar, Lincoln Perry was America's first black movie star. But for that distinction, Perry paid a heavy price — he is best known as the character of Stepin Fetchit, a...
Learn about Stepin Fetchit, the first African American movie star and a talented comic actor who played a lazy, shuffling character in many films. Find out his biography, filmography, and controversies in this entry from The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.
12. Dez. 2005 · With his sleepy eyes, whining drawl and shuffling feet, Stepin Fetchit was the screen avatar of that hoariest and most loathed of stereotypes, the utterly servile yet totally shiftless Negro....
