Doe Doe Green
Doe Doe Green (1889 - 1944) was a comic actor. A review of a 1922 performance of his with the Jack "Ginger" Wiggins company described him as a "popular neat dancing comedian".[1] He portrayed Booker T in the 1931 film Enemies of the Law. In the 1937 production Big Blow he was the only African American in the cast playing a role described as "a Negro lost in a white man's world" as he seeks to protect an orphaned white girl.[2]
D. D. Green's 2-act play Back to Africa was published in 1923.[3]
Theater
[edit]- Jake's Family (1915)[1]
- Swanee River Home (1922)
- Liza (1922) (1922) by Maceo Pinkard
- Appearances (Broadway show) (1925) as Rufus[4]
- The Green Pastures (1930) as Gabriel
- Big Blow (1937)
- The Patriots (play) (1943)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sampson, Henry T. (October 30, 2013). Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810883512 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Opportunity". National Urban League. November 25, 1937 – via Google Books.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 25, 1924). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series" – via Google Books.
- ^ Hill, Errol; Hatch, James V. (July 17, 2003). A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521624435 – via Google Books.