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Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the Christopher Award -winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to communicate with a problem student.
Bright Road: Directed by Gerald Mayer. With Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte, Barbara Randolph. Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award.
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- Drama, Music
- Gerald Mayer
- 1953-04-17
Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Suzanne (Ev'ry Night When The Sun Goes Down) New teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) struggling with grades, then a heck of a thing to discover about one’s principal, Harry Belafonte as “Mr. Williams,” with the modernized folk song, never a single but a favorite track from his chart-topping second album ...
- Gerald Mayer, George Rhein
- Dorothy Dandridge
Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and liar. Jane believes in him, then discovers his interest in nature when he spends his time watching a caterpillar in a tree trunk as it develops a cocoon. C.
Bright Road (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
First-time teacher Jane Richards (Dorothy Dandridge) is troubled to learn that one of her students, C.T. Young (Philip Hepburn), has a history of taking two years to complete each grade. Although...
- Drama
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The stars of Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonté, headline a sensitive story of a first-year schoolteacher who finds promise in a student labeled a backwards child. 183 IMDb 6.7 1 h 8 min 1953. X-Ray 7+.
