Bert Williams struggled for years on the stage before he made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the "coon." Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner with the likes of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.
Bert Williams struggled for years on the stage before he made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the "coon." Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner with the likes of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.
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