Evelyn Preer Net Worth

Evelyn Preer Net Worth is
$3 Million

Evelyn Preer Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis (July 16, 1896 – November 27, 1932), was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's short story, Rain.

Date Of BirthJuly 26, 1896
Died1932-11-27
Place Of BirthVicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Height5' 8" (1.73 m)
ProfessionActress
SpouseEdward Thompson
Star SignLeo
#Fact
1Her daughter, Edeve, took the veil, joined the Sisters of Saint Francis, a Roman Catholic order of nuns and became Sister M. Francesca Thompson, O.S.F.; she was Associate Professor of theater and speech at Marian College in Indianapolis and is a noted historian of African-American cinema.
2In April 1932, she gave birth to her only child, Edeve Thompson, after which she developed post-parturition complications, dying of double pneumonia on November 27, 1932 in Los Angeles, aged 36.
3Her husband, Edward Thompson, remained in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s and died in 1960.
4Became a successful stage performer after leaving Hollywood, where her light complexion did not fit the industry's standards for its African American performers, who usually had darker skin.
5Nearly drowned while filming a river-crossing scene for an Oscar Micheaux production.
6African-American film performer.

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Blonde Venus1932Viola (uncredited)
Ladies of the Big House1931Inmate
Georgia Rose1930Grace
The Widow's Bite1929Short
Brown Gravy1929Short
The Lady Fare1929Short
Oft in the Silly Night1929Short
The Framing of the Shrew1929ShortClarry Robson
The Melancholy Dame1929ShortJonquil Williams
The Spider's Web1927Norma Shepard
The Conjure Woman1926
The Devil's Disciple1926
Birthright1924Cissie Deldine
Deceit1923Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently
The Gunsaulus Mystery1921Ida May Gilpin
The Brute1920Mildred Carrison
Within Our Gates1920Sylvia Landry
The Homesteader1919Orlean

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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