Title: Becoming something : the story of Canada Lee /
Authors: Smith, Mona Z., 1962-
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Lee, Canada.; African American motion picture actors and actresses Biography.; Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography.
Abstract: "Imagine an actor as familiar to audiences as Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, and Morgan Freeman are today - who is then virtually deleted from cultural history. Such is the story of Canada Lee. Among the most respected black actors of the 1940s and a passionate civil rights advocate, Lee was reduced to a footnote in the history of the McCarthy era, and his death one of a handful directly attributable to the blacklist."
Contents: Always chasing rainbows: the music -- Runnin' wild: the races -- Life can be so sweet: the ring -- Nice work if you can get it: the stage -- Broadway melody: bona fide star -- Why don't you do right: on the road with Jim Crow -- California, here I come: Hollywood, war, romance -- Stormy weather: boy gets girl, girl disappears[pears -- No business like show business: white way and whiteface -- Body and soul: red scared -- Trouble, trouble: Russian spies and pink paint -- Baby, it's cold outside: friendships betrayed -- No greater love: then comes marriage -- So little time: fight to the death -- Blues requiem: speak of me as I am.