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Overview

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Director:
Jean Yarbrough
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Seasons:
2 | 3 full episode list
Release Date:
3 October 1950 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A comedy series of a family with the central role pointed to their Negro domestic who pulls the weekly family situations together with more common sense than all of the other family members.
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Wonderful show for its time more

Cast

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Ernest Whitman ... Bill Jackson (3 episodes, 1952-1953)
David Bruce ... Harry Henderson (3 episodes, 1952-1953)
Ruby Dandridge ... Oriole (3 episodes, 1952-1953)
Jane Frazee ... Alice Henderson (3 episodes, 1952-1953)
Stuffy Singer ... Donnie Henderson (3 episodes, 1952-1953)

Hattie McDaniel ... Beulah (2 episodes, 1952)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"The Beulah Show"
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Runtime:
30 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Final acting project of Hattie McDaniel. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Wonderful show for its time, 25 January 2007
Author: papabear-10

With people today being so sensitive to practically everything, the tendency is to assume that "Beulah" was racist. This is simply not true.

Although a domestic, Beulah was never subservient. It was to Beulah that the family turned whenever there was a problem, and it was Beulah that always kept her cool no matter what was happening.

Its true that her boyfriend, Bill Jackson, was somewhat lazy, but even he owned a fix-it shop. It just that was never in a hurry to fix anything. He was more interested in Beulah's cooking.

Butterfly McQueen played Beulah's best friend Oriole. Oriole was scatterbrained, but sort of in the same way that Gracie Allen was scatterbrained.

None of the characters was ever demeaned, talked down to, or "dissed" (I hate that word.) Today the racism industry calls it racist simply because it depicted a black woman as a domestic. Actually, it was simply a light-hearted family comedy which reflected life in the early 50s.

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