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Mantan Moreland
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Actor Born: September 4, 1901 in Monroe, LA Death: September 28, 1973 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Appropriately nicknamed "Google Eyes" by his childhood friends, African-American actor "Mantan Moreland" joined a carnival at 14 and a medicine show a year later - and both times was dragged home by juvenile authorities. Most of Moreland's early adult years were spent on the "Chitlin Circuit," the nickname given by performers to all-black vaudeville. After a decade of professional ups and downs, Moreland teamed with several comics (notably "Benny Carter") in an act based on the "indefinite talk" routine of Flournoy and Miller, wherein each teammate would start a sentence, only to be interrupted by the other teammate ("Say, have you seen...?" "I saw him yesterday. He was at..." "I thought they closed that place down!"). Moreland's entered films in 1936, usually in the tiny porter, waiter and bootblack roles then reserved for black actors. Too funny to continue being shunted aside by lily-white... Full Biography
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