
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first Negro to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years appearing in more than 150 movies. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received an international law degree in 1911. He was acting in New York by the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players. Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood and performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. In regards to the Lafayette Theatre's staging of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences "because, in a way, it was every black man's story. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.". Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor; he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. In 1943, he became the first African American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun. Muse was also the co-writer of several notable songs. In 1931, with Leon René and Otis René, Muse wrote "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", also known as "Sleepy Time Down South". The song was sung by Nina Mae McKinney in the movie Safe in Hell (1931), and later became a signature song of Louis Armstrong. He was the major star in Broken Earth (1936), which related the story of a black sharecropper whose son miraculously recovers from fever through the father's fervent prayer. Shot on a farm in the South with nonprofessional actors (except for Muse), the film's early scenes focused in a highly realistic manner on the incredible hardship of black farmers, with plowing scenes. In 1938, Muse co-starred with boxer Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth, the fictional story of a champion boxer which featured an all black cast. Muse and Langston Hughes wrote the script for Way Down South (1939). Muse performed in Broken Strings (1940), as a concert violinist who opposes the desire of his son to play "swing". From 1955-56, Muse was a regular on the weekly TV version of Casablanca, playing Sam the pianist (a part he was under consideration for in the original Warner Brothers film), and in 1959, he played Peter, the Honey Man, in Porgy and Bess. He appeared on Disney's TV miniseries The Swamp Fox. Other film credits include Buck and the Preacher (1972), The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) and as Gazenga's Assistant, "Snapper" in Car Wash (1976). His last acting role was in The Black Stallion (1979).

Derelict

Casablanca

深夜の告白

緋色の街/スカーレット・ストリート

疑惑の影

The Talk of the Town

From Hell to Heaven

The Thin Man Goes Home

The Black Stallion

Election Day

The Racket Man

Over the Wall

Flesh and Fantasy

God Is My Co-Pilot

Without Love

天国は待ってくれる

Watch on the Rhine

Show Boat

Johnny Come Lately

Love Crazy

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Washington Merry-Go-Round

Huckleberry Finn

An Act of Murder

Night World

My Favorite Brunette

Safe in Hell

Welcome Stranger

Hallelujah

If I Had a Million

So Red the Rose

Swing High

Kid Millions

The Black Swan

The Sun Shines Bright

The Flame of New Orleans

Two Smart People

Unconquered

Apache Drums

Frisco Jenny

Alice in Movieland

The Green Pastures

The Cabin in the Cotton

Tales of Manhattan

ブラック ライダー

Flying Down to Rio

The Sky's the Limit

Alias Mary Dow

Rain or Shine

San Diego I Love You

Maryland

Murder Over New York

Porgy and Bess

Broadway Bill

X Marks the Spot

Among the Living

Secret Service

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

The Mind Reader

Deep South

The Life of Jimmy Dolan

After the Dance

Attorney for the Defense

Chad Hanna

Katie Did It

Gentleman from Dixie

A Dream for Christmas

East of Java

Jam Session

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

Prison Train

Silver River

White Zombie

The Las Vegas Story

Car Wash

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Hell's Highway

Riding High

Way Down South

Caribbean

Red Hot Tires

Adam Had Four Sons

The Wet Parade

Belle Starr

In the Meantime, Darling

She Couldn't Say No

That Gang of Mine

Lena Rivers

Kisses for Breakfast

Spirit of Youth

Prestige

Big City Blues

Muss 'em Up

My Forbidden Past

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Black Moon

Massacre

The World's Greatest Athlete

Follow the Boys

Invisible Ghost

The Death Kiss

The Soul of a Monster

High Hat

Jungle Menace

Jungle Queen

The Woman from Monte Carlo

The Great Dan Patch

Spendthrift

Dirigible

Jamaica Run

Honey

Passing Through

New York Nights

Is My Face Red?

Winner Take All

Outside the Law

The Thoroughbred

Daniel Boone

Broken Strings

The Toy Wife

A Likely Story

Secrets of a Nurse

Jungle Safari

The Personality Kid

Sporting Blood

Harmony Lane

Man Against Woman

Hearts in Dixie

Twin Beds

The Secret Witness

A Very Honorable Guy

The Wrecker

Laughter in Hell

Hollywood on Parade No. A-12

Laughing Irish Eyes

Fury of the Jungle

The Last Parade

Guilty?

Mysterious Crossing

Stars on Parade

Jungle Terror

The Peanut Man

Tough as They Come

The Fighting Sheriff

A Royal Romance

Honeymoon Lodge

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Zanzibar

Strictly in the Groove