Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 – June 28, 1994) was an American stage and film actress, performer, and writer. She gained recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s.
Movies5.7 1933 HD
Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a...
Movies6.994 1934 HD
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...
Movies6.2 1929 HD
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington,...
Movies6.7 1937 HD
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Movies6.889 1930 HD
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of...
Movies1 1922 HD
A well-respected boxer is framed by his enemies in the death of a policeman during a raid on a local gambling establishment. He is convicted and...
Movies5 1935 HD
In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white...
Movies5.529 1929 HD
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
Movies1 1933 HD
In this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".
Movies1 1975 HD
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Movies6.6 1934 HD
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...
