Episode 314: "Paradise in Harlem" (part 1)




BMA: Black Media Archive show

Summary: Movie: In the 1939 musical "Paradise in Harlem" comedian Lem Anderson, whose long-awaited chance to act dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob killing and is forced to leave town. Lem becomes a wanderer, then an alcoholic. Finally a chance to play Othello draws him back to Harlem.