Willard Motley
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Willard Francis Motley was an American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken. He worked
Portrait of Motley by Carl Van Vechten, 1947.
Knock on Any Door
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Knock on Any Door is a 1949 American courtroom trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. The movie was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motley. The pict
Willard Motley
…Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers' Project. Motley's first and best known novel was Knock on Any Door (1947), which was made into a movie of the same name (1949). Motley was born and grew up in the Englewood neighborhood, South Side, Chicago, in one of the few African-American families residing in that…
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Mickey Knox and John Derek in Knock on Any Door