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Caption: Herb Jeffries
About Umberto Alejandro Ballentino
Actor, Soundtrack, Composer
Born: September 24, 1913
Star sign: Libra
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Known for: The Bronze Buckaroo (1939), Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938), Harlem Rides the Range (1939), Harlem on the Prairie (1937)
Source: IMDB
This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films. Today he is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial doors in Hollywood and ultimately displayed a positive...
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