The Birth of a Nation
1915
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During filming, the director realized Eugene Pallette, cast as Maggie's father, was "an admirer of Hitler [and] was convinced that Germany would win the war." Preminger also discovered the actor was a racist when he refused to sit next to African American cast member Clarence Muse and used a racial slur to refer to him.
Eugene William Pallette (July 8, 1889 – September 3, 1954 [citation needed]) was an American actor who worked in both the silent and sound eras, performing in more than 240 productions between 1913 and 1946. After an early career as a slender leading man, Pallette became a stout character actor. He had a deep voice, which some critics have ...
Jul 8, 2013 · The latter charge emerged from Otto Preminger, director of In the Meantime, Darling (1944), who not only claimed that the actor was a Nazi sympathizer, but that Pallette referred to Clarence Muse by a racist name on the set while absolutely refusing to eat with him.
Jul 8, 2022 · Here are 10 things you should know about Eugene Pallette, born 133 years ago today. He was an immensely talented and prolific character actor whose career ended under a cloud of controversy. He was an immensely talented and prolific character actor whose career ended under a cloud of controversy.
Jul 8, 2014 · Eugene Pallette AKA Eugene Pallett, Gene Pallette, Jean Pallette, (Guy Mourdant) is truly a very interesting, controversial actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was the son of Baird William Pallette, referred to as J. W. or Baird[1] the general-manager of The National life Insurance Company in St. Louis, Missouri,[2] and his mother was…
Aug 31, 2021 · The Contradictory Mexican-American Representation of ‘Bordertown’. The 1935 film relies on stereotypes but inadvertently shows the debilitating barriers that racism puts on Mexican immigrants ...
Feb 7, 2012 · Warner Oland’s “race drag” performance as Chang prefigures his many later appearances as Charlie Chan; and Eugene Pallette’s abrasive Sam Salt’s unending series of racist comments further underline the film’s interest in examining the questions of race and colonialism that swirl around the film’s seductive images.
