Dorothy Dandridge
Jane Richards
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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 is a film about a young black teacher who helps a rebellious student in the South. It features Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn and Harry Belafonte in their film debuts.
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- Drama, Music
- Gerald Mayer
- 1953-04-17
Bright Road is a drama film starring Dorothy Dandridge as Jane Richards, a first-time teacher who tries to help C.T. Young (Philip Hepburn), a slow learner, pass the fourth grade. The film explores the challenges and rewards of teaching and learning in a racially segregated school.
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- Manny Farber
- Drama
- Gerald Mayer
Bright Road is a classic Hollywood movie based on a short story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. It follows the struggles and triumphs of two teachers at an all-black school in the South, who try to help a troubled student named C. T. Young.
- Gerald Mayer, George Rhein
- Dorothy Dandridge
Bright Road is a film based on a story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, about a teacher who helps a rebellious boy in the South. The boy finds a cocoon and a butterfly, and gives them to his teacher as a gift.
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Bright Road (1953) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #BrightRoadA year before they shot to stardom in Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonté made this ...
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