Stepin Fetchit Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.

Pretty Ruth Mason, who headlined at the Village sport for almost a year, is the heroine with Manhattan Paul, emcee at the club, as the guy who gets...

Spanish-language version of The Big Fight (1930).

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.

Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

Stepin Fetchit in the Educational Pictures short "Slow Poke," doing the shtick that made him a millionaire in the 1930s.

A wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained...

Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit

Soundie featuring Mable Lee and Stephin Fetchit.

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the...

Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage...

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank...

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc...

Gloria Parker plays a station news agent who sings about a well-dressed man who comes to her asking directions to Broadway and Main. A janitor sweeps...