The Peanut Man is a 1947 American film about the life of George Washington Carver starring Clarence Muse. Muse won an interracial unity award for his role in the 45-minute film in 1949. In 1954, Jet magazine reported he was working on another Carver film at his Muse-a-White ranch in Perris, California as a test film for a planned feature film. Tony Paton was the producer for the test film.[1]
Paton and Muse met on a flight to New Orleans.[2] Ebony magazine headlined an article about the film stating it "Indicts Hollywood Race Bias".[2] A continuity cutting for the film was deposited with the New York State Archives.[2]
Maidie Norman made her film debut in the film. A poster for the film touts it as the "First Colored Feature Film in Glorious Natural Colors".[3]
Cast
edit- Clarence Muse as George Washington Carver
- Ernest Anderson as Robert
- Maidie Norman as Lucretia
- Shelby Bacon as Augustus
- Wade Crosby as Jeffries
- Ray Teal as Dr. Miller
- Bernard Gorcey as Murphy[4]
References
edit- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (November 4, 1954). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b c "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/black-films/the-peanut-man-consolidated-1947-one-sheet-28-x-42-black-films/a/161332-54331.s
- ^ "The Peanut Man (1947)". Radio Times.