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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 283850" data-attributes="member: 7">Nina Mae McKinney was one of the first black actresses trying to forego a film career during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was dubbed &quot;The Black Garbo&quot; in Europe because of striking beauty, but her film career was basically a dud because of her race. 

She made her film debut in HALLELUJAH (1929), which is typically known for being the first all-black movie musical. She later signed with MGM, but her career did not flourish there. Almost all of her scenes for the film RECKLESS (1935), a big-budget Jean Harlow vehicle, were left laying on the cutting room floor. She did have a leading role in THE DEVIL&#039;S DAUGHTER (1939), a low-budget B-feature that vanished quickly. McKinney eventually fled to Europe, where she found better success on the stage. She was the first black entertainer to appear on British television. She would occasionally return to Hollywood for such character parts in movies like PINKY (1949), but her career ended in 1954. 

Nina passed in 1967 at age 54. [ATTACH=full]28979[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]28978[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 283850, member: 7"] [JUSTIFY]Nina Mae McKinney was one of the first black actresses trying to forego a film career during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was dubbed "The Black Garbo" in Europe because of striking beauty, but her film career was basically a dud because of her race. She made her film debut in HALLELUJAH (1929), which is typically known for being the first all-black movie musical. She later signed with MGM, but her career did not flourish there. Almost all of her scenes for the film RECKLESS (1935), a big-budget Jean Harlow vehicle, were left laying on the cutting room floor. She did have a leading role in THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER (1939), a low-budget B-feature that vanished quickly. McKinney eventually fled to Europe, where she found better success on the stage. She was the first black entertainer to appear on British television. She would occasionally return to Hollywood for such character parts in movies like PINKY (1949), but her career ended in 1954. Nina passed in 1967 at age 54. [/JUSTIFY] [ATTACH type="full"]28979[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]28978[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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