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Apr 7, 2021 · When she moved to Chicago in 1927 at just sixteen, she lived with family and in various flats while she sang in churches up and down the South and West Sides of Chicago. After her 1947 hit, “Move On Up a Little Higher,” she gained international fame.
Jul 11, 2010 · In Old Chicago (1938), the picture Zanuck produced from the Levien-Trotti script, marked a change from Zanuck’s previous historical films. The majority of those had not been set in America, although some had been, such as Alexander Hamilton and The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936).
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Nov 23, 2016 · But his first work was The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930, which focused on the urban Klan in Indiana and Illinois (Jackson got his master's and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago).
Jul 27, 2020 · Zanuck had also enlisted and served as a Lieutenant Colonel leaving the studio in the capable but (from his point of view unwelcome) hands of William Goetz, his Twentieth Century Pictures nemesis. Unhappy with his war experiences, he returned to the studio in l944 to rescue an early version of Song of Bernadette , which ended up winning our ...
While African Americans made up less than two percent of the city's population in 1910, by 1960 the city was nearly 25 percent black. As the 20th century began, southern states succeeded in passing new constitutions and laws that disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites.
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Jul 13, 2012 · Zanuck is survived by his wife, sons Harrison and Dean, and nine grandchildren. Oscar-winning producer Richard D. Zanuck, whose films include “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Jaws,” died Friday ...