Movies: Evelyn Preer

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children....

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician....

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit....

The brute is a gambler,boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman, who is forced into marriage with him for money after her original fiance is thought dead. When that man returns, he attempts to rescue her....

A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932)....

The Gunsaulus Mystery is a 1921 American silent race film directed, produced, and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film was inspired by events and figures in the 1913-1915 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish man, for the murder of Mary Phagan, a Christian gir...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills....

Birthright is a 1924 film by Oscar Micheaux in 10 reels, adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922)....

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was sho...

"Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious flirtations with her." He gets madder and "badder" as the story gets "hummier" and funnier, while smooth, sua...

Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies. She makes good, and alt...

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired....

Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to eat anything she cooks him....

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel....

Spencer Williams' comedy feature....

A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams....

Musical film with an all-black cast....