“Brewster’s Millions” (1945) — Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson plays a loyal servant to Dennis O’Keefe during the latter’s madcap antics.

Anderson’s character is presented as a fellow war veteran and celebrates along with O’Keefe’s family when they have good news. So Memphis censors banned the film for “too much social equality and racial mixture.” ❕

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It takes reading a book about Jack Benny’s radio show to find out about these two movies that helped turn Eddie “Rochester” Anderson into a big star:

“Man About Town” (1939) and “Buck Benny Rides Again” (1940)

In that era, if a black actor is billed at all on a poster, he or she had to pretty much have one of the leading roles. I’ll have to track these pictures down.

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Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and Theresa Harris in “Buck Benny Rides Again” (1940)

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