Whitewashing Was One Of Hollywoods Worst Habits. So Why Is It Still Happening? To play the Moor of Venice, Olivier wore blackface and gave a performance that made the New York Times exclaim, He plays Othello in blackface! Thats right, blackface—not the dark-brown stain that even the most daring white actors do not nowadays wish to go beyond. The Times compared his look to that of the end man in an American minstrel show.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:29:31 +0000
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