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Title: Clarence Muse's New Year card, 1930-1940
Alternative Title: Clarence Muse, actor, screenwriter, director, and composer
Date Created and/or Issued: [1930-1940]
1930/1940
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Clarence Muse seated in a chair, singing, and playing an accordion. Greetings on the card: "A Happy New Year / All the Year" and "Billie and Clarence Muse / Hollywood."
Clarence Muse was an African American vaudevillian, actor, singer, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years, and appeared in more than 200 movies.
Written on back of photo: Miriam Matthews
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b22_f06_001a.tif
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Subject: African American actors
African American screenwriters
African American composers
Directors
Muse, Clarence
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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