Neva Peoples

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Neva Mary Peoples was a singer and dancer who appeared in several films in the United States. She performed as a singer, dancer, and chorus girl. [1]

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Peoples was from San Francisco. [2] A 1936 news clipping refers to her as the "colored blues singer and dancer from Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club in Hollywood." [3] Her film debut was in the 1938 melodrama Gang Smashers singing "That's What You Get in Harlem". [2] [4] She played Ella in The Duke is Tops (1938). [5] She was in a cabaret scene in the 1939 movie, One Dark Night . [6] A 1942 photograph captured her and fellow performers in zoot suit costumes for the Republic Studio film, Hit Parade of 1943 . [7] [8]

She married Phil Moore in 1937 and had a son, George Phillip Moore III, in 1939. [9] [10] [11] Moore's orchestra backed one of her performances. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Storyville". Storyville Publications. October 11, 1970 – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 "Hollywood". New York Amsterdam Star-News. 19 July 1941. p. 21. ProQuest   226111432 . Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Clipped From Medford Mail Tribune". Medford Mail Tribune. November 5, 1936. p. 4 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Bourne, Stephen. "Nina Mae McKinney: The Black Garbo". BearManor Media – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Famous New York dance team heads Tivoli Theatre stage offering tonight". California Eagle. 1938-03-10. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  6. ↑ "Mantan Moreland Is Star Of Coast Film". The Chicago Defender (National Edition). 2 September 1939. p. 20. ProQuest   492521117 . Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  7. ↑ "Zoot-suited Hepcats by Bettmann". Pixels.
  8. 1 2 "In Republic's New Film". Afro-American. 21 November 1942. p. 10. ProQuest   531380310 . Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "Phil Moore, teenage Seattle jazz-piano prodigy, makes his KXA radio debut on June 7, 1935". www.historylink.org.
  10. ↑ "Neva Peoples is Mrs. Phil Moore". California Eagle. 1940-05-30. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  11. ↑ "Phil Moore, teenage Seattle jazz-piano prodigy, makes his KXA radio debut on June 7, 1935". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  12. ↑ Ronda l. Sewald (2017). "Things I Forgot to Tell You: The Forgotten Legacy of Phil Moore" . Black Camera. 9 (1): 329–349. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.9.1.15. JSTOR   10.2979/blackcamera.9.1.15. S2CID   194835956.
  13. ↑ Bourne, Stephen. "Nina Mae McKinney: The Black Garbo". BearManor Media – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ "Neva Peoples".
  15. ↑ Jones, George William (October 11, 1991). Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found. University of North Texas. ISBN   9780929398266 – via Google Books.


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