Clarence Muse's New Year card, 1930-1940

Title: Clarence Muse's New Year card, 1930-1940
Alternative title: Clarence Muse, actor, screenwriter, director, and composer
Date Created: [1930-1940]
Date: 1930/1940
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Clarence Muse seated in a chair, singing, and playing an accordion. Greetings on the card: "A Happy New Year / All the Year" and "Billie and Clarence Muse / Hollywood."
Clarence Muse was an African American vaudevillian, actor, singer, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years, and appeared in more than 200 movies.
Caption: Written on back of photo: Miriam Matthews

Genre: photographs
Names: Muse, Clarence
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American actors
African American screenwriters
African American composers
Directors