The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gertrude Hadley Jeannette.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gertrude Hadley Jeannette.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 49 min., 52 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Jeannette, Gertrude, -- 1914-2018 -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318099

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Gertrude Hadley Jeannette Gertrude Hadley Jeannette
Other authors / contributors:	Jeannette, Gertrude, 1914-2018, interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Neculai Burghelea. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded New York, New York 2005 June 9. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Actress and playwright Gertrude Hadley Jeannette was born on November 28, 1914 in Urbana, Arkansas. Jeannette graduated from Dunbar High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1934, Jeannette eloped, moving to New York City where she became the first woman to drive a cab. Jeannette furthered her education, taking bookkeeping, speech, and acting classes. In 1945, Jeannette was cast in the lead role in Our Town. In 1950, she and Fred O'Neil appeared on television in James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombone on CBS' General Electric Hour. As a result of this exposure, Jeannette performed in Broadway plays like Lost In The Stars, Amen Corner, and The Great White Hope. In 1979, Jeannette founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. players to give artists a chance to develop their talents and skills in theatre and to enrich cultural life in Harlem. She received the Paul Robeson Award from the Actor's Equity Association.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 49 min., 52 sec.)) : sound, color. 024952
Playing Time:	02:49:52
Production Credits:	Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.