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Dancing in the dark

Bert Williams struggled for years on the stage before he made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the "coon." Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner with the likes of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.

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  • "In the late 1800s, when the Williams family moves from the Bahamas to the U.S., young Bert is torn between his father's insistence that he become an educated man and his own desire to perform on stage. In 1896 Bert makes a fateful decision--he decides to perform in blackface. Although accused of reviling his race, intelligent and sensitive Bert becomes the mumbling "coon," cakewalking his way to being the first black star in Ziegfeld's Follies."
  • "A fictional re-creation of the life and times of Bert Williams, the first black entertainer in the United States to achieve success, a man who dons blackface to become a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies."
  • "Bert Williams struggled for years on the stage before he made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the "coon." Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner with the likes of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy."@en

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  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Dancing in the dark"@en
  • "Dancing in the dark"
  • "Dancing in the Dark"@en
  • "Dancing in the dark : a novel"
  • "Dancing in the dark : Caryl Phillips"
  • "Dans i mörker"@sv
  • "Dansen in het donker"

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