Gone Are the Days! Was a 1963 American comedy-drama film starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge. It is based on the Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which was written by Davis. Purlie is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South. Its focus is on the dynamic, traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community's church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee's plantation. With the assistance of Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, Purlie hopes to pry loose from Cotchipee an inheritance due his long-lost cousin and use the money to achieve his goals. Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace, 1922 – 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Her career in acting crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, including the film, A Raisin in the Sun, in which she recreated her stage role as a suffering housewife in the projects. [Wikipedia] Studio portrait of Ruby Dee from "Purlie Victorious" Written on back of photo: "Purlie Victorious" 239 Ruby Dee. Do I have a copy negative, (?)
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