Stepin fetchit biography character actors
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FIRST BLACK ACTOR TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE
Stepin Fetchit, an American vaudevillian and comedian is considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career that made him a millionaire.
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Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985) adopted Septin Fetchit when he won money betting on a racehorse named “Step and Fetch It”, and his vaudeville partner and he decided to adopt the names “Step” and “Fetchit” for their act. When Perry became a solo act, he combined the two names, which later became his professional name.
Background
His mother wanted him to become a dentist, a quack dentist adopted him, and at the age of 12 he ran away to join a carnival. By 20 he was earning his living as a singer, tap dancer, comic character actor and the manager of a travelin
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Stepin Fetchit
American character actor (1902–85)
"Lincoln Perry" redirects here. For the artist, see Lincoln Perry (artist).
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.[3] His highest profile was during the 1930s in films and on stage, when his persona of Stepin Fetchit was billed as the "Laziest Man in the World".
Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, becoming the first black actor to earn $1 million. He was also the first black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film.[4][5]
Perry's film career slowed after 1939 and nearly stopped altogether after 1953. Around that time, Black Americans began to see his Stepin Fetchit persona as an embarrassing and harmful anachronism,
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Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit (believed to be a contraction of "step and fetch it") was an American comedian and film actor. He was born in Key West, Florida, to West Indian immigrants, before moving with his family to Tampa in 1910. Perry began entertaining in his teens as a comic character actor. By the age of twenty, Perry had become a vaudeville artist and the manager of a traveling carnival show before transitioning into film acting.
Perry played comic relief roles in a number of films, all based on his character known as "The Laziest Man in the World". The character of Stepin Fetchit continued the “trickster” tradition of slaves: outwitting slave owners by pretending to be lazy and unintelligent to exploit their white owners sense of superiority. Perry’s physicality of the Fetchit character involved shuffling, mumbling, dozing off whenever possible, heavy eyelids, dangl