The Colored American Winning His Suit Actors List (Cast)

The Colored American Winning His Suit is a lost 1916 race film, the first production of the Frederick Douglass Film Company. It was written and produced by the Reverend W. S. Smith, pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church of Jersey City, New Jersey, and also a member of the production company. The New York Age hailed it as "the first five-reel Film Drama written, directed, acted and produced by Negroes." Its purpose was to counter anti-African-American films and improve race relations.

The film premiered at the Majestic Theatre in Jersey City to an "interracial audience of over 800" on July 14, 1916. The New York Age review states it was to have its first run at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem, New York City. According to the American Film Institute, it opened in New York on July 23 and in Baltimore on August 29.

The Colored American Winning His Suit Actors List (Cast)

Sorry, we don't yet have enough data (yet) to create a list of The Colored American Winning His Suit Actors.

Listvote Login