Mildred Boyd | |
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 Mildred Boyd, Los Angeles, 1940s | |
| Born | October 2, 1908 Kingston, Tennessee, US |
| Died | October 22, 1999 (aged 91) Inglewood, California, US |
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Mildred Boyd (1908-1999) was an actress, a singer, and a dancer who was active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s. [1] [2] Like many Black actresses of her era, she was often cast as a maid or a nurse.
Boyd was born in Kingston, Tennessee, to Creed Boyd and Rachel Finley. The family moved to Nebraska soon after she was born. Boyd relocated to Los Angeles as a young adult, where she found work a chorus girl at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, a popular Black nightclub in Culver City. She was part of a group known as the Creole Cuties. [3] [4]
Around the same time, she began appearing in Hollywood films, working regularly throughout the 1930s and 1940s.[ citation needed ] She appeared in more than 200 films. [5]
On Broadway, Boyd appeared in The Duchess Misbehaves (1946). [6]
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