Fredi Washington

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face ...

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a ...

A planter’s wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi ...