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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.”)
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.
3 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.
13 mag 2024 · Paul Robeson (born April 9, 1898, Princeton, N.J., U.S.—died Jan. 23, 1976, Philadelphia, Pa.) was a celebrated American singer, actor, and black activist. Paul Robeson (right), in the title role of Othello, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona
6 mag 2024 · Sing, comrade, sing brother of the earth, sing, good father of fire, sing for us all – Pablo Neruda, Ode to Paul Robeson. When the towering 6’3 seventeen-year-old Paul Robeson arrived at Rutgers University in 1915, he was not only the sole Black student in attendance, but the third Black student since the school’s founding in 1766.
6 giorni fa · Paul Robeson was many things – Shakespearean actor, bass-baritone, activist, film star. He attended college on an All-American football scholarship but chose to study law over becoming a professional athlete. Prevented from working as a lawyer due to racism, Robeson began his career as an actor on the stage in 1930s Harlem before making his ...
15 mag 2024 · 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 blacklisting by the federal government. The book is divided into four acts: Youth, Artist, Activist, and Erased.
