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100 1 $aSmith, Mona Z.,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003029790
245 10 $aBecoming something :$bthe story of Canada Lee /$cMona Z. Smith.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFaber and Faber,$c2004.
300 $axvii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [371]-409) and index.
505 0 $aAlways chasing rainbows: the music -- Runnin' wild: the races -- Life can be so sweet: the ring -- Nice work if you can get it: the stage -- Broadway melody: bona fide star -- Why don't you do right: on the road with Jim Crow -- California, here I come: Hollywood, war, romance -- Stormy weather: boy gets girl, girl disappears[pears -- No business like show business: white way and whiteface -- Body and soul: red scared -- Trouble, trouble: Russian spies and pink paint -- Baby, it's cold outside: friendships betrayed -- No greater love: then comes marriage -- So little time: fight to the death -- Blues requiem: speak of me as I am.
520 1 $a"Imagine an actor as familiar to audiences as Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, and Morgan Freeman are today - who is then virtually deleted from cultural history. Such is the story of Canada Lee. Among the most respected black actors of the 1940s and a passionate civil rights advocate, Lee was reduced to a footnote in the history of the McCarthy era, and his death one of a handful directly attributable to the blacklist." "Born in Harlem in 1907, Lee was a Depression-era Renaissance man, reinventing himself numerous times during one of our country's darkest periods: a musical prodigy on violin and piano, he made his concert debut at New York's prestigious Aeolian Hall at eleven; by thirteen he had become a successful jockey; in his teens, a pro boxer; and in his twenties, a leading contender for the national welterweight title, until an unlucky blow to the head cost him the sight in one eye and his fighting career. After wandering into auditions for the Federal Theater Project's Negro Unit, Lee took up acting and shot to stardom in Orson Welles's Broadway production of Native Son. He later appeared in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's classic Lifeboat and the original Cry, the Beloved Country with a young Sidney Poitier." "But Lee's meteoric rise to fame was followed by a devastating fall from grace. Labeled a Communist by the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee as early as 1943, Lee was pilloried during the notorious spy trial of Judith Coplon in 1949, and his career was ultimately destroyed when his longtime friend Ed Sullivan denounced him in his nationally syndicated column. Lee died in 1952, forty-five and penniless, a heartbroken victim of a dangerous and conflicted time."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aLee, Canada.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80083961
650 0 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107993
650 0 $aAfrican American motion picture actors and actresses$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027828.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol042/2003027828.html
852 00 $bbar$hPN2287.L2898$iS65 2004
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN2287.L2898$iS65 2004