Hallelujah 1929 Black Film 1st African American Musical Rare Advert MGM Cinema For Sale

DETAILS: Original page from Photoplay Magazine, November 1929 which display an advert for the first African American musical filmHallelujah, MGM Pictures, 1929. Measures 8.25 x 11.5 inches.



BACKGROUND: Hallelujah wasa 1929 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical directed by King Vidor, and starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney. Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes), and his relationship with the seductive Chick (McKinney), Hallelujah was one of the first films with an all-African American cast produced by a major studio. It is considered by many as Hollywood's first all-black cast musical as it was the first such film to also be nationally distributed. It was intended for a general audience and was considered so risky a venture by MGM that they required King Vidor to invest his own salary in the production. Hallelujah was King Vidor's first sound film, and combined sound recorded on location and sound recorded post-production in Hollywood.[3] King Vidor was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the film.


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