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Actress, Fredi Washington, was born Fredericka Carolyn Washington on Dec 23, 1903 in Savannah, GA. Washington died at the age of 90 on Jun 28, 1994 in Stamford, CT .

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By KC on Feb 18, 2010 From Classic Movies

I’ve always been frustrated in my efforts to get a satisfactory glimpse of actress . She was blessed with beauty, intelligence and talent, but these qualities were not sufficient to make an African American a leading lady in the Hollywood of the thirties. With her pale skin, st... Read full article


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Delilah Johnson: What's my baby want?
Peola Johnson, Age 19: I want to be white, like I look.
Delilah Johnson: Peola!
Peola Johnson, Age 19: [gesturing to mirror] Look at me. Am I not white? Isn't that a white girl?


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Attended St. Elizabeth Convent in Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania, and later, for dramatic training, the Egri School of Dramatic Writing and the Christopher School of Languages.

First husband was Lawrence Brown, a trombonist in the Duke Ellington band. Following their divorce in 1951, she married a Connecticut dentist, Hugh Anthony Bell, and retired. She worked at the Stamford branch of Bloomingdale's from 1954 to 1980.

Played the lead opposite Paul Robeson in the Broadway play "Black Boy" under the (then) stage name of Edith Warren. She later worked with Robeson again in The Emperor Jones (1933), in which her skin was darkened with makeup for fear that audiences might think Robeson was actually filming love scenes with a white woman.

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