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The Watermelon Woman

1997 · Cheryl Dunye · 85 min

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Sometimes you have to create your own history.

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

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7/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database131 votes

Cheryl DunyeCheryl

Guinevere TurnerDiana VValarie WalkerTamara LLisa Marie BronsonFae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards

Cheryl ClarkeJune Walker IIrene DunyeSelf BBrian FreemanLee Edwards IIra JeffriesShirley Hamilton

Alexandra JuhaszMartha Page

Camille PagliaSelf

Sarah SchulmanCLIT Archivist VV.S. BrodieKaraoke Singer SShelley OlivierAnnie Heath

David RakoffLibrarian TToshi ReagonStreet Musician

Cast

Cheryl DunyeCheryl

Guinevere TurnerDiana VValarie WalkerTamara LLisa Marie BronsonFae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards

Cheryl ClarkeJune Walker IIrene DunyeSelf BBrian FreemanLee Edwards IIra JeffriesShirley Hamilton

Alexandra JuhaszMartha Page

Camille PagliaSelf

Sarah SchulmanCLIT Archivist VV.S. BrodieKaraoke Singer SShelley OlivierAnnie Heath

David RakoffLibrarian TToshi ReagonStreet Musician

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