Check and Double Check (1930)
- Starring:
- Freeman Gosden, Charles J. Correll, (more)
- Director(s):
- Melville W. Brown
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Check and Double Check
Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters played by two white men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Donning blackface, Gosden and Correll are seen as well as heard as A&A, partners in the Harlem-based Fresh Air Taxicab Company. Our heroes spend most of their time helping the white romantic leads (Sue Carol and Charles Morton) try to locate a missing deed to some property owned by Morton's family. Eventually, Amos 'N' Andy unwittingly end up in a haunted house. Virtually the only genuine African Americans in the film are the members of Duke Ellington's Cotton Club orchestra, whose appearance at a high society ball is the device that brings A&A into the plot. Though no other Amos 'N' Andy films would follow, a popular TV series later aired in the 1950s with black actors cast in the leads. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Check and Double Check
- Freeman Gosden - Amos
- Sue Carol - Jean Blair
- Ralf Harolde - Ralph Crawford
- Russell Powell - Kingfish
- Irene Rich - Mrs. Blair
- Robert E. Homans - Nathan
- Charles J. Correll - Andy
- Charles Morton - Richard Williams
- Edward Martindel - John Blair
- Patrick Conway - Cop
- Duke Ellington
- Rita La Roy - Elinor Crawford
- Director(s):
- Melville W. Brown
- Writer(s):
- Bert Kalmar, J. Walter Ruben, Harry Ruby
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