The Green Pastures

The Green Pastures

1936 | 1h 33m | Drama | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

Many of the great African American actors of the 1930s star in this humorous and moving adaptation of Roark Bradford's novel and Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

William Keighley

Marc Connelly

CAST

Rex Ingram

Oscar Polk

Eddie Rochester Anderson

Frank Wilson

George H. Reed

PRODUCERS

Henry Blanke

WRITERS

Marc Connelly

Marc Connelly

Roark Bradford

Marc Connelly

Host Intros

02:02
Robert Osborne Intro -- The Green Pastures (1936)
Intro Aired: Jan 2016
Robert Osborne Introduces The Green Pastures, 1936.

Related Videos

02:13
Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) All But One Tree
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Rex Ingram performing two roles in the same scene, as Adam and as De Lawd, visiting his newly created earth, and producing Myrtle Anderson as Eve, the angels observing from above, in The Green Pastures, 1936, from Marc Connellys controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
03:27
Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Preachers Is The Devil
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De Lawd (Rex Ingram) down from heaven checking the status of his creations, earth and its human inhabitants, meeting Zeba (Edna Mae Harris) and Cain the Sixth (James Fuller), in the 1936 Warner Bros. version of Marc Connellys widely criticized Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures.
03:54
Green Pastures, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Here Comes De Lawd
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From a scene in which an African-American Louisiana Sunday school teacher describes heaven to his pupils, Gabriel (Oscar Polk) introduces Rex Ingram as De Lawd, visiting his angels, early in the Warner Bros. adaptation of Marc Connellys Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures, 1936.
05:45
Green Pastures, The - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
God tests the human race in a reenactment of Bible stories set in the world of black American folklore in The Green Pastures (1936), starring Rex Ingram.

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