Gertie Brown
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Gertie Brown Moore was a vaudeville performer and one of the first African-American film actresses. Brown is most famous for her part in the 1898 silent film Something Good – Negro Kiss, which went vi
Saint Suttle (left) and Brown (right) in a still from the 1898 silent film Something Good – Negro Kiss.
Saint Suttle
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Saint Suttle, was an American composer and performer. Suttle was well known as a cakewalk artist and vaudeville performer in Chicago. An African American, he was a pioneering performer in early film o
Gertie Brown
…According to her obituary, she began her career on the stage at the age of nine. In the 1890s, she performed alongside well-known composer and entertainer Saint Suttle (1870-1932) in vaudeville and minstrel shows in the Chicago area and nationally. Suttle, Brown, and John and Maud Brewster performed as a group called…
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