
Stormy Weather is a 1943 film musical produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The movie is considered one of the best Hollywood musicals with an all African-American cast and serve to showcase of some of the top African-American performers of the time. Continue reading
Tag: Hollywood Monday
2/23/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Liberation of L.B. Jones- Roscoe Lee Browne – Introducing Lola Falana


In the 1970 film drama The Liberation of L.B. Jones a wealthy Black undertaker, Lord Byron (L.B.) Jones performed by Roscoe Lee Browne, seeks to engage a respected lawyer to represent him in a divorce action against Emma (Lola Falana), his young wife who’s having an affair with Willie Joe Worth (Anthony Zerbe), a white cop. Jones is seeking a divorce from his considerably younger Emma, alleging she had an affair with white police officer Willie Joe Worth, whom he suspects is the biological father of her unborn child. Continue reading
2/4/26 O&A NYC WILDIN OUT WEDNESDAY: Big Ben – Lady Sings The Blues


Lady Sings The Blues is the story of jazz singer Billie Holiday and is loosely based on her 1956 autobiography. The name of the film was taken from one of Holiday’s most popular songs.
1/26/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Lilies Of The Field – Starring Sidney Poitier


Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor Oscar as a warm, sensitive handyman who, while stranded in an Arizona desert town, builds a chapel for a lively group of nuns (including Lilia Skala). Continue reading
1/12/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Sounder – Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield and Kevin Hooks

Sounder (1972) is a film drama based on the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong about a black depression era sharecropper family in Louisiana. The movie starred Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, and Kevin Hooks. Musician Taj Mahal composed the film’s blue-inspired soundtrack and appears in a supporting role. Continue reading
1/5/26 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: The Life of Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989)
Alvin Ailey revolutionized the world of dance by honoring the African American experience, but his journey was not without its struggles. O&A NYC Magazine honors the memory of one of dance’s most prolific pioneers on the anniversary of his 95th birthday. Continue reading
12/29/25 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Miracle In Harlem (1948)


Miracle in Harlem (1948) is a independent American film known as a race film, featuring an all-African American cast. is a murder mystery melodrama with musical elements, considered one of the better films of its genre from that era. The cast in the all black cast included Sheila Guyse as Julie Weston, Hilda Offley as Aunt Hattie, William Greaves as Bert Hallam (Julie’s boyfriend), Stepin Fetchit as Swifty, the handyman, Laurence Criner as Albert Marshall, and vocalists Savannah Churchill, Juanita Hall, and the Lynn Proctor Trio. Continue reading
12/22/25 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: My Christmas Inn – Starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict & Jackee Harry


With the holiday season in full swing, Jen Taylor (Tia Mowry-Hardict) is about to score a big promotion at the San Francisco ad agency where she works. But her life is unexpectedly turned upside down when she inherits a cozy inn in Alaska from her aunt. Continue reading
11/17/25 O&A NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Polly (1989)


Polly is a Musical Film adaptation of the classic novel Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, set in 1950s Alabama. It features an all African-American cast (with the exception of Celeste Holm) and stars Keshia Knight Pulliam in the title role alongside Phylicia Rashad as her aunt. Continue reading
10/27/25 O& NYC HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Frankenstein Legacy (2023)


England, 1875. A century after Victor Frankenstein’s doomed experiment, his journals have traded hands for decades. Frankenstein’s secrets did not die with him. As graves are torn up and patients disappear from the asylum, William Browning sets out to find who stole his father’s body – and finds horrors close to home as his mother descends into madness. Continue reading










