Recently viewed Paul Robeson: Here I Stand,
an excellent 1999 documentary which originally aired as part of the
American Master's series on PBS. I thought this film was one of the
better documentaries I have seen, and very interesting as well.
A footnote: according to Martin Duberman's biography of the singer
and actor, Robeson once met Louise Brooks. Sometime around April 21,
1925, Robeson met Brooks at a party at the apartment of writer /
photographer Carl Van Vechten, according to Essie Robeson's diary. Essie
Robeson wrote of Brooks, she "was very late and I couldn't wait for
her, but . . . Paul said she was very conceited and impossible."
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