Evelyn Preer
Vaudeville Performer, Theater Actor
1896 – 1932
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Who was Evelyn Preer?
Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis, was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."
She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's short story, Rain.
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- Born
- Jul 16, 1896
Vicksburg - Also known as
- Evelyn Jarvis
- Spouses
- Edward Thompson
(1924 - 1932/11/17) - Lawrence Chenault
(1924 - )
- Edward Thompson
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Vicksburg
- Died
- Nov 27, 1932
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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