Lincoln Perry Stepin Fetchit
by Sad Hill - Bizarre Los Angeles Archive
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Lincoln Perry Stepin Fetchit
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Sad Hill - Bizarre Los Angeles Archive
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Comedian Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, became the first black actor to become a millionaire. In 1929, he earned between $750 and $1000 per week. He owned three cars, and as the story goes, after receiving 11 speeding tickets, Fox insisted that he hire a chauffeur. Here he is on the Fox movie lot in 1929. With an extravagant lifestyle, Perry went bankrupt in the 1940s, and by the 1960s, he was financially destitute and homeless. But he was full of Old Hollywood stories, many of them priceless. Perry was honored by the NAACP in the 1970s for his civil rights advocacy.
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October 26th, 2015
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