.MTQzNw.MTI0NDcx

newspaper clipping A YOUNG CHICAGO MOVIEMAKER, Henry Cheharbakhshi, a native of Iran, has been awarded a grant by the American Film Institute to produce a documentary on the life of black actress Janice Kingslow. name circled in red with line to handwritten comment, Did you know her? The film will be titled "Janice" and will tell the story of an actress underlined in blue ink: too black for white roles and too white for black roles...

handwritten comments Twenty-five years ago, she was insert: also lovely, pert, vivacious. Very tan and slender a promising and talented young actress. (She played the lead in one of the traveling companies of Anna Lucasta). The conflict of the underline drove her out of her mind, literally, and she was hospitalized for many years. Truly an American Tragedy.

(Her brother, Trucks, was a talented jazz musician.