Lucile Browne


Actor
Lucile Browne

About

Also Known As
Lucille E Brown, Lucille Browne, Lucille Brown, Lucile Brown
Died
August 21, 1992
Cause of Death
Long Illness

Biography

Black American actress, singer and dancer who began her career at age 5 when Hal Roach took her out of an orphanage to play Farina for about a year in his "Our Gang" comedies. Brown's career in film was rather brief, though she did small roles in the later all-Black features "The Green Pastures" (1936) and "Stormy Weather" (1943). Brown also sang and danced for many years as the headline...

Biography

Black American actress, singer and dancer who began her career at age 5 when Hal Roach took her out of an orphanage to play Farina for about a year in his "Our Gang" comedies. Brown's career in film was rather brief, though she did small roles in the later all-Black features "The Green Pastures" (1936) and "Stormy Weather" (1943). Brown also sang and danced for many years as the headliner of Babe Barlow and the Sugar Drops. Not to be confused with white American actress Lucille Brown, leading lady of a handful of modest films in the 1930s.

Life Events

1923

Was living in an orphanage when producer Hal Roach cast her as Farina in the "Our Gang" comedies

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