Laboratory services by Fotokem, Pacific Title & Art Studio, Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc., Simon Daniel Sound. Restored from a 35mm nitrate print and RCA sound discs. Cast: Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming, William Von Brincken. Production: Tiffany Productions/Colorart. Jan-Christopher Horakģ5mm, color, 70 min. In 2012, the original print was sent to UCLA for this restoration.
Brennan contacted Ron Hutchinson of The Vitaphone Project, who put him in touch with UCLA’s motion picture archivist Todd Wiener miraculously, the discs had survived at UCLA, as well as two reels of color nitrate. The film had been sent to Australia in 1930 with Vitaphone sound discs, rather than sound on the film, and some of those discs were missing. It was not until 2009 that an Australian film impresario, Paul Brennan, “discovered” an original two-color Technicolor IB nitrate print, belonging to an old couple in their 80s who lived in or near Adelaide. That didn't help Tiffany, which went bankrupt in 1932, as the Depression deepened, its catalog of prints and negatives disappearing into oblivion. When the film opened in New York in March 1930, it broke the box office record for the Gaiety Theatre. Rogell, the film kept running out of money, but the gamble paid off. Shot on the Universal lot by action specialist Albert S. The film went into production in late 1929, when Tiffany, a low-budget, independent studio decided to play with the big boys in Hollywood, investing half a million dollars to make a sound, color and 3-D film, at least according to Film Daily. He buys himself an impoverished countess as a wife and brings her back to Africa where she soon is terrorized by the alien environment. August Bolte is a thoroughly disgusting plantation owner, who violently mistreats his African workers, sexually abuses native women, and is shunned by both the British and German military officers garrisoned in the border area between British and German colonies. I look forward to bringing this important historical and relevant life story to the screen.Starring Jean Hersholt, Mamba takes place in 1913 in German East Africa, now Tanzania. Because of your legacy, we are able to write and portray OURSELVES in whatever light we choose,” Goodwin extolled. Other credits include BET’s Being Mary Jane, Showtime’s SMILF, and Fox comedy feature, Snatched, with Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn.
Goodwin was most recently starred in the Lifetime movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, the true story of gospel group the Clark Sisters, which marked the network’s highest-rated original movie since 2016. We are thrilled to have Raven Goodwin play Hattie McDaniel and provide an honest look into the triumphs and tragedies of her life.” Individuals such as Hattie McDaniel were trailblazers in their struggle for equality, and their stories need to be told for our country’s understanding of inclusiveness and tolerance. “Now, more than ever, in a still divisive time in our country’s relationship with race, the story of Hattie McDaniel is meaningful and current. “It’s exciting to be involved in telling the story of a woman who is a part of American history as well as movie history,” remarked Rick Romano, President of Global Genesis Group. “In our first meeting on Zoom, she already showed the kind of passion that is befitting such a complex and Iconic character as Hattie McDaniel was.” “Raven Goodwin is such a phenomenal talent and a gift to this project,” said McCoy-Lankford. Most recently, Queen Latifah portrayed McDaniel in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix miniseries, Hollywood.
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