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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 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.
- $252,000
- David Rose
- $377,000
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.
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...
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- Manny Farber
- Drama
- Gerald Mayer
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Bright Road is a 1953 drama film about a teacher and a student who overcome challenges and grow together. It features Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonté in their screen debuts, and was directed by Gerald Mayer.
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