![]() ![]() There were no revival art houses in Orlando to discover classic films. This was long before the Internet, and even before cable and VCRs were ubiquitous. ![]() She was a recent graduated of Fisk University (a historic black school) and showed A Place in the Sun to her all white class. ![]() My book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles is dedicated to Annye Refoe who was my creative writing teacher my junior and senior year of high school. It is playwriting and screenwriting with brass knuckles. The movie is based on the 1959 Broadway play of the same name written by Lorraine Hansberry, who also wrote the screenplay. On this Martin Luther King Day I decided to revisit the classic movie A Raisin in the Sun.The movie came out in 1961, two years before Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” and three years before the Civil Rights Act passed. ![]()
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