Tess Gardella(1894-1950)

Tess Gardella wurde am 19 Dezember 1894 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA geboren. Sie war Schauspielerin, bekannt für Das Komödiantenschiff (1929), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) und Honey (1930). Sie starb am 3 Januar 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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Film

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Film

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Film

Kurzfilm

A Swing Opera
Kurzfilm
- The Gypsy Queen (as Tess 'Aunt Jemima' Gardella)
- 1939
Dave Apollon & His Orchestra
Kurzfilm
- Aunt Jemima
- 1938
Vitaphone Troupers
Kurzfilm
- Aunt Jemima (as Aunt Jemima)
- 1936
Stand Up and Cheer!
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- Aunt Jemima (as 'Aunt Jemima')
- 1934
Rambling 'Round Radio Row #3
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Kurzfilm
- Aunt Jemima (as Aunt Jemima)
- 1933
The Lease Breakers
Kurzfilm
- Performer (as Aunt Jemima)
- 1932
Honey
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- Aunt Jemima (Nicht genannt)
- 1930
Das Komödiantenschiff
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- Queenie [prologue] (as Aunt Jemima)
- 1929
Aunt Jemima: The Original Fun Flour Maker
Kurzfilm
- Aunt Jemima (as Aunt Jemima)
- 1927

Dave Apollon & His Orchestra
Kurzfilm
- performer: "Born to Swing" (as Aunt Jemima, Nicht genannt)
- 1938
Vitaphone Troupers
Kurzfilm
- performer: "Clementine (from New Orleans)" (Nicht genannt)
- 1936
Stand Up and Cheer!
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- performer: "I'm Laughin'" (1934) (Nicht genannt)
- 1934
Rambling 'Round Radio Row #3
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Kurzfilm
- performer: "I Ain't Got Nobody Much (and Nobody Cares for Me)" (as Aunt Jemima, Nicht genannt)
- 1933
Honey
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- performer: "Sing You Sinners"
- 1930
Das Komödiantenschiff
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- performer: "C'mon Folks" (Queenie's Ballyhoo) (1927), "Hey, Feller!" (1927) (Nicht genannt)
- 1929
Aunt Jemima: The Original Fun Flour Maker
Kurzfilm
- performer: "My Idea of Heaven", " (That's the Reason) I Wish I Was in Dixie", "One Sweet Letter from You", "Everybody Stomp", "I Was Born in Virginia" (Nicht genannt)
- 1927

Wissenswertes
Ms. Gardella was a white Italian-American stage performer, but her usual stage persona, and actual stage name, was "Aunt Jemima", which she performed in blackface. It was in this persona that she played Queenie, the African-American cook, and wife of Joe, the deckhand, in the original Broadway production of "Show Boat" in 1927, as well as the first Broadway revival in 1932. She was the only white performer in the entire cast to play a role in blackface. She also appeared in the prologue of the first film adaptation, Das Komödiantenschiff (1929).