Madame Sul-Te-Wan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Madame Sul-Te-Wan (March 7, 1873 – February 1, 1959) was an American stage, film and television actress. The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the east coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community. She became known as a character actress, appeared in high profile films such as Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), and easily navigated the transition to the "talkies."Her career spanned over five decades, and, in 1986, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Sul-Te-Wan was the first African American actor, male or female, to sign a film contract and be a featured performer.
I carry no antagonism to anyone because of their skin and I don't get any from them.
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[on roles for black actors and actresses in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood] I get bitter sometimes because I don't work long enough to buy a handkerchief.
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Known for the theatricality of her appearance, particularly her penchant for turbans and wearing her hair in two long braids.
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Three sons, James, Onest Conley and Otto, by her first husband. She and her children all appeared in films produced at the Fine Arts Studio in Los Angeles during the 1910s.
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Entered films in 1913.
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First African American actress to work under contract at a major studio (Fine Arts).
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Kept in touch with film director D.W. Griffith for decades and attended a memorial service for him at the Hollywood Masonic Temple in 1948.
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Despite popular belief, she was not the grandmother of actress Dorothy Dandridge.
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