Nicky O'Daniel was an American actress on stage and screen. In the short film Caldonia she portrays the title character, a possessive girlfriend who convinces her man not to go to Hollywood for a film production but to stay New York City.[1] She was one of the performers featured in the 1945 short film It Happened in Harlem. A soundie titled The Pollard Jump (1946) includes her dancing.[2][3][4]
Theater
editFilmography
edit- It Happened in Harlem (1945)
- Caldonia (1945)
- Swingtime Jamboree (1946)
- Rhythm in a Riff (1947)
- Harlem After Midnight (1947) as dancer. Edited from Rhythm in a Riff[7]
- The Pollard Jump, a soundie[2]
References
edit- ^ Pitts, Michael R. (April 19, 2019). Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965. McFarland. ISBN 9781476636283 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "THE POLLARD JUMP Soundie". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Weird Wild Realm: Twentieth Clutch of Soundies Reviews". www.weirdwildrealm.com.
- ^ Scott, Ellen C. (2016). "Black Movement Impolitic: Soundies, Regulation, and Black Pleasure". African American Review. 49 (3): 205–226. doi:10.1353/afa.2016.0034. JSTOR 26444249. S2CID 163275693.
- ^ "Chicago Stagebill Yearbook". September 8, 1947 – via Google Books.
- ^ Jones, Chris (October 4, 2013). Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226090719 – via Google Books.
- ^ "HARLEM AFTER MIDNIGHT (1947)". Library of Congress.
