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Oscar Polk (December 25, 1899 – January 4, 1949) was an American actor. He portrayed the enslaved man Pork in the film Gone with the Wind (1939).
Oscar Polk was an American actor who appeared in films such as Gone with the Wind, The Green Pastures and Reap the Wild Wind. He was born in 1899 in Arkansas, married Ivy V. Polk and died in 1949 in New York after being hit by a taxi.
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- Marianna, Arkansas, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
Oscar Polk was an actor who appeared in Gone with the Wind, The Green Pastures and Reap the Wild Wind. He was born in Arkansas, married Ivy V. Polk, and died in New York in 1949.
- December 25, 1899
- January 4, 1949
Oct 25, 2008 · Actor Oscar Polk began his career in the early 1930s as a stage performer in the musical production of Swingin’ the Dream, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Nights Dream. The Arizona native studied dancing at Jack Blue’s Dance Studio and later became a tap dance instructor.
Jun 10, 2020 · To the film’s credit, Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy, became the first African American to win an Oscar. But Mammy’s two fellow black servants, Pork (Oscar Polk) and Prissy (Butterfly ...
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming.
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Mar 3, 2023 · These scenes would have helped debunk the misconception that enslavers had healthy, loving relationships with the people they enslaved—a notion that has complicated the legacy of Hattie...