Anita Bush was an African American stage actress and playwright. She founded the Anita Bush All-Colored Dramatic Stock Company in 1915, a pioneering black repertory theatre company that helped gain her the moniker "The Little Mother of Colored Drama".
Performing in The Crimson Skull.
Anita Bush at home, c. 1970
Poster for The Crimson Skull (1921) with Lawrence Chenault and Anita Bush
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered for his portrayal of Sam in the 1942 film Casablanca. In that romantic drama, he performs its theme song "As Time Goes By".
Wilson starring in the Federal Theatre Project production of The Show-Off (1937)
Wilson as Fat Joe in the Federal Theatre Project revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Long Voyage Home, comprised in the production One-Act Plays of the Sea (1937)
Wilson as Androcles in the Federal Theatre Project production of Androcles and the Lion (1938)