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: 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 is a film based on a story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, about a teacher and a rebellious boy in the South. The boy finds a cocoon and a butterfly, and gives them to his teacher as a gift.
MGM shed its glamorous image and bucked conventional wisdom when it financed Bright Road, a low-budget 1953 drama with an almost all-black cast. Even as an African-American film, Bright Road was an anomaly for the period, being neither a musical nor a treatment of racial issues.
- Gerald Mayer, George Rhein
- Dorothy Dandridge
Improvements are scheduled for the Bright Road corridor and the Bright Road/Sawmill Road intersection to prepare for increased traffic and improve access to the future Mount Carmel Dublin. A roundabout will be constructed on Emerald Parkway at the hospital’s entrance near Bright Road.
Dandridge plays Jane Richards, a fourth-grade teacher concerned about young C.T. (Philip Hepburn), a student whose indifference to school has even the principal (screen-debuting Belafonté ...
- 3 min
- 7.2K
- Warner Bros. Classics
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