Neva Peoples Explained

Neva Mary Peoples was a singer and dancer who appeared in several films in the United States. She performed as a singer, dancer, and chorus girl.[1]

Peoples was from San Francisco. A 1936 news clipping refers to her as the "colored blues singer and dancer from Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club in Hollywood."[2] Her film debut was in the 1938 melodrama Gang Smashers singing "That's What You Get in Harlem".[3] [4] She played Ella in The Duke is Tops (1938).[5] She was in a cabaret scene in the 1939 movie, One Dark Night.[6] A 1942 photograph captured her and fellow performers in zoot suit costumes for the Republic Studio film, Hit Parade of 1943.[7]

She married Phil Moore in 1937 and had a son, George Phillip Moore III, in 1939.[8] [9] [10] Moore's orchestra backed one of her performances.[11]

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Storyville. October 11, 1970. Storyville Publications. Google Books.
  2. News: Clipped From Medford Mail Tribune. Medford Mail Tribune. November 5, 1936. 4. newspapers.com.
  3. News: Hollywood . 22 October 2020 . New York Amsterdam Star-News . 19 July 1941 . 21 . . English.
  4. Web site: Nina Mae McKinney: The Black Garbo. Stephen. Bourne. BearManor Media. Google Books.
  5. News: 1938-03-10. Famous New York dance team heads Tivoli Theatre stage offering tonight. 9. California Eagle. 2020-12-28.
  6. News: Mantan Moreland Is Star Of Coast Film . 22 October 2020 . The Chicago Defender (National Edition) . 2 September 1939 . 20 . . English.
  7. Web site: Zoot-suited Hepcats by Bettmann. Pixels.
  8. Web site: Phil Moore, teenage Seattle jazz-piano prodigy, makes his KXA radio debut on June 7, 1935.. www.historylink.org.
  9. News: 1940-05-30. Neva Peoples is Mrs. Phil Moore. 17. California Eagle. 2020-12-28.
  10. Web site: Phil Moore, teenage Seattle jazz-piano prodigy, makes his KXA radio debut on June 7, 1935.. 2020-12-28. www.historylink.org.
  11. Things I Forgot to Tell You: The Forgotten Legacy of Phil Moore. 10.2979/blackcamera.9.1.15. 10.2979/blackcamera.9.1.15. 2017. Ronda l. Sewald. Black Camera. 9. 1. 329–349. 194835956.
  12. Web site: Nina Mae McKinney: The Black Garbo. Stephen. Bourne. BearManor Media. Google Books.
  13. Web site: Neva Peoples .
  14. News: In Republic's New Film . 13 October 2020 . Afro-American . 21 November 1942 . 10 . . English.
  15. Book: Jones, George William. Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found. October 11, 1991. University of North Texas. 9780929398266. Google Books.

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