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13. "I can't pass for black!"
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:29 PM
Mar 2018

"I didn't say I was gonna make you black; I said I was gonna get you on that train."

Have you never watched any movies from that time period? oberliner Mar 2018 #1
Yeah but wtf did I block it out? elehhhhna Mar 2018 #2
There is some pretty ugly stuff out there oberliner Mar 2018 #4
Mickey Rooney playing a Japanese sterotype irisblue Mar 2018 #21
1955? I would have thought the time had LONG passed! Siwsan Mar 2018 #3
Ever see Soul Man? oberliner Mar 2018 #5
No - never saw that. But my brain/memory are starting to spring to life Siwsan Mar 2018 #7
Yep that was Silver Streak. One of my favorite Gene Wilder movies sdfernando Mar 2018 #12
"I can't pass for black!" gratuitous Mar 2018 #13
I guess the difference is between plot related and gratuitous Siwsan Mar 2018 #14
Kinda feel that if Pryor signed off on that, it's okay. elehhhhna Mar 2018 #23
Love his story from that era about how he burned himself, just dipping his cookies into his milk mr_lebowski Mar 2018 #26
His opening joke that night was about running down the street on f ire elehhhhna Mar 2018 #29
and whats scarier, those eyebrows are making a comeback..... a kennedy Mar 2018 #16
I've noticed that! Siwsan Mar 2018 #19
This is Joan Crawford's birthday. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2018 #6
Seems so! elehhhhna Mar 2018 #8
Bing Crosby sang in blackface kskiska Mar 2018 #9
That was a decade prior oberliner Mar 2018 #10
My guilty secret: I was in a minstrel show. trof Mar 2018 #11
Wake up and smell the greasepaint. It was a "thing" in theater and movies for a very long time... Hekate Mar 2018 #15
Lincoln's Birthday in Holiday Inn, yes Maeve Mar 2018 #17
Thanks! Hekate Mar 2018 #18
We watch it every year at Christmas Maeve Mar 2018 #20
Too funny about Bugs Bunny. Once my folks got a tv, we kids watched after school cartoons... Hekate Mar 2018 #22
At schools in upstate integrated New York, there were minstrel shows with blackface in 1960's wishstar Mar 2018 #24
I'm shocked that you are shocked. nt Kirk Lover Mar 2018 #25
Blazing Saddles-1974 Wounded Bear Mar 2018 #27
Favorite old Hitchcock movie had dance band in blackface. edbermac Mar 2018 #28
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