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SUMMARY:Black Girl
DESCRIPTION:Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more 
 about upcoming screenings and events.\n\nFree admission. No advance 
 reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your 
 ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served 
 basis. The box office will open one hour before the event.\n\nIntroduction 
 by Archive Director May Hong HaDuong. Q&A with writer J. E. 
 Franklin.\n\nScreening 1 of 2\n\nHearst Metrotone News: "Porgy & Bess 
 Opening" (excerpt)\n\nYear: 1959\nCountry: U.S.\nRuntime: 2 min.\nDigital. 
 B&W. Silent.\n\nScreening 2 of 2\n\nBlack Girl\n\nYear: 1972\nCountry: 
 U.S.\nLanguage: English\nRuntime: 97 min.\nDigital. Color.\n\nWest Coast 
 Premiere of New Restoration\n\nNamed by Film Comment as one of the best 
 restorations of 2025\, director Ossie Davis’ third feature is finding its 
 audience more than 50 years after its original release. The play on which 
 the film is based\, Black Girl\, by J. E. Franklin\, who wrote the 
 screenplay\, was already a landmark of Black theater after a record-setting 
 off-Broadway run in 1971 that earned Franklin the Drama Desk Award for Most 
 Promising Playwright. Actor-turned-director Davis was coming off the box 
 office success of his Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)\, an adaptation of 
 Chester Himes’ politically charged detective novel that helped spark the 
 Blaxploitation wave of the 1970s. In a contemporaneous interview\, civil 
 rights icon Davis nevertheless lamented the lack of films about the 
 “trials and tribulations of the Black middle class.” For the family in 
 Black Girl\, the personal and cultural politics of upward mobility are 
 central to the conflicts among three generations of Black women. The 
 youngest\, Billie Jean (Peggy Pettitt)\, strives to become a dancer\, 
 earning taunts from her half-sisters (Gloria Edwards\, Lorette Greene). 
 Their mother\, Rose (Louise Stubbs)\, still stinging from her own 
 mother’s indifference\, has seemingly given up on her own children\, 
 placing her hopes in Netta (Leslie Uggams)\, a neighborhood girl she took 
 in now studying for law school. Every member of the ensemble cast — 
 including a swaggering Brock Peters as Rose’s ex — rises to the 
 occasion as their characters clash in a cramped Venice\, California\, 
 home\, prompting Variety to declare Black Girl the best depiction of Black 
 family life “since Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.” The 
 film’s distributor\, however\, gave it an exploitation-style release\, 
 booking it in action houses with posters promising the same\, leading the 
 trade paper to complain the strategy would “keep away serious filmgoers 
 who would have been rewarded by the fine directing and acting.” Black 
 Girl now stands ready for rediscovery.—Paul Malcolm\n\nDCP. Production: 
 Marconlee. Distribution: Cinerama Releasing. Producer: Robert H. Greenberg. 
 Director: Ossie Davis. Screenwriter: J. E. Franklin. Based on the play by 
 J. E. Franklin. Cinematographer: Glenwood J. Swanson. With: Brock Peters\, 
 Claudia McNeil\, Leslie Uggams\, Louise Stubbs\, Peggy 
 Pettitt.\n\nRestoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family 
 Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film 
 Foundation from 35mm acetate original picture and track negatives. 
 Laboratory services by illuminate Hollywood\, Audio Mechanics\, Simon 
 Daniel Sound\, Fotokem. Special thanks to J. E. Franklin\, Malika Nzinga.
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/16741596
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