Draft:Walter Weems
Walter Weems was a screenwriter. Earlier in his career he was a vaudeville Blackface performer on a tuba. He moved to Hollywood to write screenplays.[1] A cartoon of him appeared in a calendar for 1919.[2] Thomas Cripps described him as an "old Southern minstrel man."[3]
Family[4] He was white.
He performed in Australia in Tivoli Folloes in 1916 (someone else?) Tivoli Follies)
Clarence Muse credits him with writing Stepin Fetchit's slow character for a fast dancing performer.[5]
Filmography
[edit]Actor
[edit]Writer
[edit]- The Olympic Hero (1928), co-wrote
- Hearts in Dixie (1929)[7][8][9]
- Anybody's War (1930), co-writer (also acted in as as Sergeant Skipp)[10]
- Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931), co-wrote[11]
- A Merchant of Menace (1933), co-wrote with Leslie Goodwin[12](directed by Harry Sweet)
- Conflict (1936 film) (1936), co-wrote screenplay adaptation[13]
- Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941)
- Lost in Limehouse, co-wrote screenplay with Harrington Reynolds[14]
Other works
[edit]Discography
[edit]- "Henry VIII"
- "He Peddles His Bristles to Women"[17]
- "I've Got Those Dinkum Aussie Blues" (1924), words[18]
References
[edit]- ^ Robinson, Cedric J. (September 1, 2012). Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469606750 – via Google Books.
- ^ performer.), Herbert Lloyd (vaudeville (November 28, 1919). "Vaudeville Trails Thru the West: "by One who Knows"". Herbert Lloyd Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Cripps, Thomas (February 3, 1977). Slow Fade to Black. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-987845-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ Muir, Diana J. (September 30, 2018). The Weems of Abbeville, South Carolina. Lulu.com. ISBN 9780359074945 – via Google Books.
- ^ Manchel, Frank (November 28, 2007). Every Step a Struggle: Interviews with Seven who Shaped the African-American Image in Movies. New Academia Publishing, LLC. ISBN 9780978771300 – via Google Books.
- ^ Edwards, Paul M. (March 28, 2016). World War I on Film: English Language Releases through 2014. McFarland. ISBN 9780786498666 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Columbus_This_Week_1929_132". digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org.
- ^ Friedman, Ryan Jay (November 28, 2011). Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813550480 – via Google Books.
- ^ Watkins, Mel (November 14, 2006). Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9781400096763 – via Google Books.
- ^ Mavis, Paul (June 8, 2015). The Espionage Filmography: United States Releases, 1898 through 1999. McFarland. ISBN 9781476604275 – via Google Books.
- ^ Davis, Lon (May 25, 2020). "CHASE! A Tribute to the Keystone Cop". BearManor Media – via Google Books.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 28, 1934). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series" – via Google Books.
- ^ Davis, Ronald L. (May 1, 2001). Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806133294 – via Google Books.
- ^ Pitts, Michael R. (March 27, 2015). RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929-1956. McFarland. ISBN 9781476616834 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures". U.S. Government Printing Office. November 28, 1928 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office". 1944 – via books.google.com.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 28, 1962). "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series" – via Google Books.
- ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions". Library of Congress, Copyright Office. November 28, 1925 – via Google Books.