Mildred Boyd Explained

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.

Biography

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]

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mildred Boyd, Los Angeles, 1940s - UCLA Library Digital Collections. 2021-04-02. digital.library.ucla.edu.
  2. Web site: 27 Jan 1933. Behind the Scenes with Harry. 2021-04-02. California Eagle. en.
  3. Web site: 19 Mar 1926. Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club. 2021-04-02. The Los Angeles Times. en.
  4. Web site: 14 May 1926. Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club. 2021-04-02. The Los Angeles Times. en.
  5. Hope to beat Hollywood's hex . Jet . November 22, 1951 . 1 . 4 . 61 . April 4, 2021.
  6. Web site: Mildred Boyd . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . April 4, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210404013035/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mildred-boyd-473062 . April 4, 2021.