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The Watermelon Woman (1997)
Directed by Cheryl Dunye
“Sometimes you have to create your own history.”
Drama, Comedy, Romance · 1h 25m
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Cast
Cheryl Dunye
Cheryl
Guinevere Turner
Diana
V
Valarie Walker
Tamara
L
Lisa Marie Bronson
Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards
Cheryl Clarke
June Walker
I
Irene Dunye
Self
B
Brian Freeman
Lee Edwards
I
Ira Jeffries
Shirley Hamilton
Alexandra Juhasz
Martha Page
Camille Paglia
Self
Sarah Schulman
CLIT Archivist
V
V.S. Brodie
Karaoke Singer
Crew
- Director
- Cheryl Dunye
- Writer
- Cheryl Dunye
- Director of Photography
- Michelle Crenshaw
- Original Music Composer
- Paul Shapiro
- Editor
- Annie Taylor, Cheryl Dunye
- Producer
- Barry Swimar, Alexandra Juhasz
Details
- Release date
- 1997-03-05
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Dancing Girl