Minstrel Show Movies

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a...

At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a...

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to...

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly...

A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was...

In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.

A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in...

Five black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.

Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.