Draft:Alec Lovejoy
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Comment: Most citated sources seem unreliable. No information on his personal life just a list of acting credits. OLI 17:52, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Alex Lovejoy, Lovejoy's Breakfast Club, and Lovejoy's should link here
Alec Lovejoy, also noted as Alex Lovejoy, (1893 - 1946) was a comedic actor and restaurateur in the United States who appeared on stage and screen. He appeared on stage[1][2] and screen. He owned Lovejoys on Central Avenue in Los Angeles. He was photographed with Julia Richardson and promoter Earl Griffin in Los Angeles in the 1940s.[3]
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He performed as a youngster even touring in Europe as part of a company. He was cast in Oscar Micheaux films.[4] He is on a lobbycard for the film Murder in Harlem.[5] He is noted on advertising for Murder on Lennox Avenue as part of the "All-Star Colored Cast" in support of Mamie Smith.
Lovejoy's[edit]
Lovejoy's was on Vernon and Central Avenue. Jimmy Witherspoon sang there after hours while holding down a dishwashing job. It was a "chicken joint"[6] and advertised that "If you haven't tried Lovejoy's Big Leg Chicken, then, Jack, you ain't been stickin'."[7] Art Tatum performed there on a "tiny piano".[8] Lovejoy was photographed at his restaurant with Louis Armstrong. It was across from the Alabam club and delivered food to patrons at various clubs.[9] It was an "upstairs place".[10] Joe Turner and Slam Stewart also played there.[11]
Theater[edit]
- How Come? (1923)[12]
- Change Your Luck (1930) as Big Bill
- Sweet Chariot (1930) as King
- Black Rhythm (1936) as Cornbread
- How Come, Lawd? (1937) as Slacks
- Sing for Your Supper (1939)
Filmography[edit]
- St. Louis Blues (uncredited)
- Black and Tan (1929), as piano mover[13]
- Murder in Harlem (1935)[14][15] as Lem Hawkins
- God's Step Children (1938) as Ontrue Cowper, a gambler
- Swing (1938) as Lem Jackson
- Birthright[16] (1939)
- Paradise in Harlem (1939) as Misery
- Moon Over Harlem (1939) as Fats[17]
- Sunday Sinners (1940) as Eli
- Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) as Flivver Johnson[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Alec Lovejoy – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ a b "Alec Lovejoy (Performer) | Playbill".
- ^ "Alex Lovejoy, Julia Richardson and Earl Griffin, Los Angeles, 1940s - UCLA Library Digital Collections". digital.library.ucla.edu.
- ^ Jr, Bernard L. Peterson (October 30, 2000). Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9780313065033 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Murder In Harlem, lobbycard, , Alec Lovejoy, Dorothy Van Engle, 1935". Getty Images.
- ^ Deffaa, Chip (September 16, 1996). Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252022036 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lipsitz, George (March 3, 2010). Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781452939292 – via Google Books.
- ^ Heckman, Don (July 30, 1998). "Echoes of Central Avenue". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Louis Armstrong and Alex Lovejoy at Lovejoy's, Los Angeles, 1940s - UCLA Library Digital Collections". digital.library.ucla.edu.
- ^ Bryant, Clora (August 31, 1999). Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520220980 – via Google Books.
- ^ DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell; Meadows, Eddie S. (May 12, 1998). California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520206281 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Windsor Star 28 Sep 1923, page 14". Newspapers.com.
- ^ themoviedb
- ^ "Alec LOVEJOY - Festival de Cannes 2023". www.festival-cannes.com.
- ^ "Dark Manhattan with Murder in Harlem". Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - Timeline.
- ^ "Birthright". The Criterion Channel.
- ^ "Alec Lovejoy". BFI.