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Amos 'n' Andy Missing Persons Beureau ( February 4, 1944)
About this film
Amos 'n' Andy is a sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem. The show was very popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s on both radio and television. The radio show was written and voiced by two white actors playing a number of different characters: the titular Amos Jones and Andrew Hogg Brown, George Stevens, better known as "The Kingfish," "Lightnin'", and many others. The number of characters portrayed by the two performers required not only their own vocal versatility, but compelled them to invent a number of innovative microphone techniques to help convey the illusion of multiple characters in the same space. As the show came to television, black actors took over the overwhelming majority of the roles; white characters were infrequent. Amos 'n' Andy began as one of the first radio comedy series, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago. After the program was first broadcast in 1928, it grew and became a hugely popular radio series. Early episodes were broadcast from the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, California. The show ran as a nightly radio serial from 1928 until 1943, a…
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Subjects
Amos 'n' Andy, Radio, Black Face, Minstrels, Comedy Duo, Classic Radio, Old Time Radio, Funny, Laughter, Laughing, Gags, Comedians, Vintage, Radio Classic, Old Time, 1920s, 20s, Comedy Team, Public Domain, Sam 'n' Henry
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