Voodoo Macbeth

Dec 9, 2021

1h 48m

★ 5.0

Based on the true story of Orson Welles, Rose McClendon, and their revolutionary Shakespeare production.

Overview

In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to opening night.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts

Voodoo Macbeth Trailers

Cast

Rose McClendon

Inger Tudor

Orson Welles

Jewell Wilson Bridges

Maurice

Jeremy Tardy

Virginia Welles

June Schreiner

John Houseman

Daniel Kuhlman

Cuba Johnson

Wrekless Watson

Edna Thomas

Ashli Haynes

Jack Carter

Gary McDonald

Martin Dies

Hunter Bodine

Juano Hernandez

Ephraim López

Peter

Gabriel Sousa

Tweedledum

David Thomas Newman

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