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Bright Road

"THE AWARD STORY from The Ladies' Home Journal has become the most unusual picture of the year."

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NR 1953 · 1h 8m
Drama, Music
Starring Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Robert Horton
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Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Theatrical
Apr 17, 1953
Director
Gerald Mayer
Writer
Emmet Lavery
Producer
Sol Baer Fielding
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Keywords
alabama school teacher based on short story
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Cast

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D
Dorothy Dandridge
Jane Richards
H
Harry Belafonte
Mr. Williams - School Principal
R
Robert Horton
Dr. Mitchell
M
Maidie Norman
Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
R
Rene Beard
Booker T. Jones
H
Howard Louis McNeely
Boyd
F
Fred Moultrie
Roger
D
Doris Ake
W
Willa Pearl Curtis
V
Vivian Dandridge
M
Marion Darlington
L
Louise Franklin
T
Theron Jackson
J
Jeni Le Gon
L
Libby Taylor
B
Bill Walker

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