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One Hour to Live, the 1939 Harold D. Schuster romantic love triangle crime murder suspense melodrama (about a detective and a criminal who are both in love with the same woman) starring Charles Bickford, Doris Nolan, John Litel, Samuel S Hinds, Paul Guilfoyle, Ernie Alexander, Jack Carr, and Theresa Harris (a pretty black African American actress who started in movies in 1929, and she appeared in 86 movies over the next several decades, but due to the prejudices of the times, she mostly played only maids and other stereotyped roles, but because she was both an excellent actress and an excellent singer, she did have some stand out parts, including opposite Barbara Stanwyck in "Baby Face", where she had equal screen time to Stanwyck; because she made so many movies and because she invested her money well, she was able to live comfortably in her later years, and while she did not get to ever have the starring roles she would have received had she appeared in the 1970s and later, she did live until 1985, so she saw many of the great advances made by black actresses who followed her!). Note that Harris' character in this movie is called "High Yaller Girl", which is a corruption of "High Yellow", which referred to "mixed race" people who had mostly "white blood", but because of the prejudices of the time, were considered "black" if they had even a tiny bit of black ancestry! Finally, note that there are many black African Americans in the cast of this movie (most notably Theresa Harris), but we were unable to find out enough about the plot to see how they fit into the movie. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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