Dooley Wilson - Sam in Casablanca - got his stage name because he started out performing an act (in whiteface) as Mr. Dooley, a fictional Irish saloon keeper of 1890s Chicago who was known for his satirical commentary on then-current events.
And this is the first I’ve heard of actors performing in whiteface.
With marijuana being decriminalized in Atlanta maybe it’s time for a Smokey and the Bandit remake with weed instead of beer?
Never saw White Chicks?
or Eddie Murphy as Saul in Coming to America
Or Godfrey Cambridge in Watermelon Man
I could recite those off the top of my head, but Wikipedia has a page on it, that includes Dooley Wilson
In addition to the examples given, the play Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward is traditionally played by an all-black cast in whiteface. It’s a scathing satire on racial stereotypes in the US. The original off-Broadway cast included Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams, and Esther Rolle.
In the Our Gang short Ye Olde Minstrels (1941), the cast suddenly turns from “normal” to blackface. . . except Buckwheat, who is seen in one quick shot reacting in shock that he’s now White.
Eddie Murphy did a whiteface sketch for Saturday Night Live
While he was a college student actor Chevy Chase played drums in a band called The Leather Canary. The band never recorded anything, but two of its other members, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, went on to form Steely Dan.
Jim Bowie’s gun in “The Alamo” (1960) was the seven-barrelled Nock Volley Gun. When fired, all seven barrels shot. Actually used by the British navy, but for most of that movie’s history, who was gonna know?
Eddie Murphy’s memorable White Like Me sketch was written by Andy Breckman, who would later create the TV show Monk.
It is similar to a season 1 sketch, 8 years earlier, in which Richard Pryor plays an author describing his book White Like Me and talks about going undercover as a white man, although I don’t think he actually appears in whiteface in the sketch.
No, so I may be wrong but I thought they used whole masks rather than makeup.
The notorious “Hey Hey It’s Saturday” blackface skit (Australia, 2009), was a whiteface skit – Michael Jackson was played by a light-brown man in whiteface.
Hey Hey red-faced over blackface skit - ABC News
That was a bit edgy, but only because you don’t make fun of the dead. The international reaction came as a surprise to Australia - at the time there was a lesser awareness of American shiboleths.
in Jean Genet’s play, “The Blacks”, he had Black actors wear white masks; and in Baraka’s play, “A Black Mass”, Black actors did likewise
In the Bible, there is only one Salome mentioned: in Mark 16–she was one of 3 women visiting Jesus tomb; the daughter of Herodias who danced the 7 veils is unnamed, Don’t know who or when she was called that
Of course, there might be other references to a daughter of Herod named Salome. And it’s quite possible there were multiple women named that-- Just how many Marys were there in the New Testament?
The historian Josephus names Salome as Herod 's daughter, and briefly notes the execution of John the Baptist.
While Harpo Marx never spoke in any of his talking pictures, he did have dialog in an early silent film role in the film Too Many Kisses.
Today I learned that the one-hit wonder band Breakfast Club (“Right On Track”) had, at one point, a female drummer. She left the band because she wanted to be the frontwoman. According to her, she left the band after being told that she was all flash and no talent.
That woman later pursued a solo career, and seems to have done okay for herself.
Her talent was flash. It takes a lot of skill to be as flashy as her.
A few recordings of Harpo’s voice do exist. Four are available on this YouTube compilation. He had a nondescript voice and some people have complained that hearing him speak hurts his image in their heads, so click at your own risk.
