Mildred Boyd | |
Birth Date: | October 2, 1908 |
Birth Place: | Kingston, Tennessee, US |
Death Date: | October 22, 1999 (aged 91) |
Death Place: | Inglewood, California, US |
Mildred Boyd (1908-1999) was an actress, a singer, and a dancer who was active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s.[1] [2] Like many Black actresses of her era, she was often cast as a maid or a nurse.
Boyd was born in Kingston, Tennessee, to Creed Boyd and Rachel Finley. The family moved to Nebraska soon after she was born. Boyd relocated to Los Angeles as a young adult, where she found work a chorus girl at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, a popular Black nightclub in Culver City. She was part of a group known as the Creole Cuties.[3] [4]
Around the same time, she began appearing in Hollywood films, working regularly throughout the 1930s and 1940s. She appeared in more than 200 films.[5]
On Broadway, Boyd appeared in The Duchess Misbehaves (1946).[6]