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3 mag 2024 · (A grandfather of Mr. Polan, Saul Turell, was a president of Janus Films and won an Academy Award for making the 1979 documentary short “Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist.”)
2 giorni fa · Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist is a 1979 American (short) (documentary film) directed by (Saul J. Turell). In 1980, it won an Oscar at the (52nd Academy Awards) for (Documentary Short Subject). It was released alongside Robeson's other films on a (Criterion Collection) box set in 2007.
3 mag 2024 · (A grandfather of Mr. Polan, Saul Turell, was a president of Janus Films and won an Academy Award for making the 1979 documentary short “Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist.”) Jane Polan, who keeps her son’s drawings taped around her home, reflected on the initiative in a phone interview.
13 mag 2024 · Paul Robeson was a celebrated American singer, actor, and black activist. The son of a former slave turned preacher, Robeson attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., where he was an All-America football player. Upon graduating from Rutgers at the head of his class, he rejected a career.
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6 mag 2024 · Paul Robeson's fame as a singer and actor aided his fierce advocacy for racial equality and socialism. The latter resulted in immense repression during the Red Scare.
6 giorni fa · Weatherford provides an unflinching look at the life of Robeson (1898–1976), activist, scholar, singer, actor, and athlete. Through a series of resonant first-person, free-verse poems, she covers his life from childhood just one generation removed from enslavement to international stardom as an entertainer and his subsequent ...
2 mag 2024 · Paul Robeson was an African American actor and singer who gained fame for his performance of “Ol’ Man River” in the 1936 film adaptation of “Show Boat.” Robeson’s interpretation of the song was fueled by his own experiences of racism and inequality in America, as well as his activism on behalf of African American rights ...
