{{short description|1930 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Italic title}} '''''Georgia Rose''''' was a 1930 film. It was directed by Harry Gant and stars Clarence Brooks.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDOA4rfbPOQC&q=%22georgia+rose%22+1930+preer&pg=PA15|title=Redefining Black Film|last=Reid|first=Mark A.|date=February 23, 1993|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520912847|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daarac.org/2018/01/georgia-rose-1930-lost-film.html|title=Georgia Rose (1930) [Lost Film]|access-date=February 16, 2020|archive-date=February 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216041512/https://www.daarac.org/2018/01/georgia-rose-1930-lost-film.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It followed the 1928 film ''Absent'' with Brooks as its star.
The film was produced by Aristo Film Corporation and the songwriter was Fred C. Washington.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/1478-GEORGIA-ROSE|title=Georgia Rose (1930)|last=|first=|date=|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|publisher=American Film Institute|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref> The film was the first film talkie actress and singer Evelyn Preer appeared in.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&q=georgia+rose1930&pg=PA271|title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television|first=Bob|last=McCann|date=December 21, 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786458042|via=Google Books}}</ref>
== Plot == {{More plot|date=April 2020}} The film is about an African American family migrating north.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFzBAAAQBAJ&q=%22georgia+rose%22+1930+harry+gant&pg=PA63|title=The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream|last=Garcia|first=Desirée J.|date=August 1, 2014|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813568669|via=Google Books}}</ref> This picture was filmed by Harry Gant, former cameraman with the Lincoln Motion Picture Company. This story is about a minister's attempt to move his flock and daughter from Georgia to better farming land in the Midwest. While boarding up with a family, the minister's daughter is smitten by the love bug and led to corruption by her new lover's brother. Of course, she is saved in the nick of time by her new lover and forgiven by her father.<ref>{{cite web |last1=SelfScience |title=Georgia Rose (1930) [Lost Film] |url=https://www.daaracarchive.org/2018/01/georgia-rose-1930-lost-film.html |website=www.daaracarchive.org |publisher=Department of Afro American Research Arts and Culture |access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref>
==Cast==
* Clarence Brooks as Ralph<ref name=":0" /> * Irene Wilson as Rose<ref name=":0" /> * Evelyn Preer as Grace<ref name=":0" /> * Roberta Hyson as Helen<ref name=":0" /> * Allegretti Anderson ''(née'' Alegretta Summers; 1898–1944) as Ethel<ref name=":0" /> * Edward Thompson as Bob<ref name=":0" /> * Webb King as Joe<ref name=":0" /> * Spencer Williams as Ezra<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwiah|title=WILLIAMS, SPENCER|last=JONES|first=G. WILLIAM|date=June 15, 2010|website=tshaonline.org}}</ref> * Dora Dean Johnson as Mary Barnett<ref name=":0" /> * E. C. Dyer as Reverend Hoskins<ref name=":0" />
== Reception == The film received coverage from the ''Baltimore Afro-American'', ''California Eagle'', ''Chicago Whip'', ''New York Age'', and ''Pittsburgh Courier''.<ref name=":0" /> Henry Louis Gates described the film as a race musical.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E_vRLcgEdGoC&q=%22georgia+rose%22+1930+preer&pg=PA408|title=Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography|last1=Gates (Jr.)|first1=Henry Louis|last2=Higginbotham|first2=Evelyn Brooks|date=February 16, 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195387957|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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== External links == *{{IMDb title|020916}}
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Category:1930 films Category:American musical films Category:African-American films Category:1930 American films