Biography
Evelyn Preer (née Jarvis; July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932), was an African American pioneering screen and stage actress, and jazz and blues singer in Hollywood during the late-1910s through the early 1930s. Preer was known within the Black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."
She was the first Black actress to earn celebrity and popularity. She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York–style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain.
Filmography
all 12
Movies 12
(uncredited)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Movie
Inmate
Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Movie
Grace
Georgia Rose (1930)
Movie
Clarry Robson
The Framing of the Shrew (1929)
Movie
Jonquil Williams
Melancholy Dame (1929)
Movie
Norma Shepard
The Spider's Web (1927)
Movie
Cissie Deldine
Birthright (1924)
Movie
Doris Rutledge / Evelyn Bently
Deceit (1923)
Movie
Ida May Gilpin
The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
Movie
Sylvia Landry
Within Our Gates (1920)
Movie
2.67
Mildred Carrison
The Brute (1920)
Movie
Orlean
The Homesteader (1919)
Movie
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1919
1921
1927
1930
1932
Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1896-07-16
Deathday1932-11-17 (36 years old)
Birth PlaceVicksburg, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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