Bright Road (1953) - (Movie Clip) Suzanne (Ev'ry Night When The Sun Goes Down)

Name: Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Suzanne (Ev'ry Night When The Sun Goes Down)
Uploaded: 2017-03-10T00:00:00-05:00
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: New teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) struggling with grades, then a heck of a thing to discover about ones principal, Harry Belafonte as Mr. Williams, with the modernized folk song, never a single but a favorite track from his chart-topping second album (Belafonte, 1955), in MGMs Bright Road, 1953.

New teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) struggling with grades, then a heck of a thing to discover about one’s principal, Harry Belafonte as “Mr. Williams,” with the modernized folk song, never a single but a favorite track from his chart-topping second album (Belafonte, 1955), in MGM’s Bright Road, 1953.

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