[78-L] Cantor/Jolson films in the MGM/FOX - A report

[William A Brent]

possibly - as they own it - but they are gun-shy when it comes to 
well known films
with black-face  as it Fox.  Of course they really don't know the 
films that well, so
FOX will show Dante's Inferno where Spencer Tracy has a 8 min scene, 
in black-face,
where he sticks his head through a canvas at a carnival booth, and people throw
baseballs at it.
Turner shows Harold Lloyd's The Cat's Paw where the Asians are
referred to as "The Chinks" - pretty sure some (not me of course) 
find that offensive.

(BTW - there are no ethnic stereotypes that offend me - including 
those directed at
my background, which is German.)


At 01:03 PM 12/17/2008, you wrote:
>I'm rather certain that I saw "Go Into Your Dance" on TCM.  No?
>
>Bud
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