Uncle Tom's Cabin

The famous ice-floe spectacle, from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, fugitive slave mother Eliza (Margarita Fisher) and child flee in a winter storm to a free state, famously re-shot entirely in Hollywood after an expensive, failed shoot in upstate New York, in Universal’s multi-million dollar epic treatment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Mentioned previously but only now introduced, James Lowe as the title character, in 1856 Kentucky, trusted by his owner Shelby (Jack Mower) to handle cash while visiting Ohio, confusing his business associate Haley (Adolph Milar), and bringing a gift to his wife (Gertrude Howard), in Universal’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

On the evening of the happy wedding of light-skinned Kentucky slaves George (Arthur Edmund Carew) and Eliza (Margarita Fisher), his owner Harris (Skipper Zeliff) shows up to take possession, resisting attempts by the Shelby’s (Jack Mower, Vivian Oakland) to buy him, early in Universal’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Not the origin but one of the more famous literary uses of the phrase, James Lowe, the title character, separated in Kentucky from the benevolent Shelby (Jack Mower) and his own wife (Gertrude Howard), then on the riverboat restored by Universal Pictures, shot on location on the Mississippi, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.