Hallelujah Original Studio Photograph 1929
£850.00
Original material for this seminal work is exceedingly scarce.
1 in stock
Hallelujah! (MGM, 1929).
One of the very first all-black films ever produced by a major studio, a risky venture for its time period. The filming and release of the picture was not without travails, incurring resistance from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Big theaters were concerned about the crowd the film would draw, and it wasn’t until independent exhibitors screened the picture, attracting mixed audiences, that the larger players got on board.
Victoria Regina Spivey, sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer, songwriter, and record company founder. During a recording career that spanned 40 years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Luis Russell, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Dylan.
