Overview - Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary

Runtime: 100 minutes

Homepage: Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: William Greaves Productions

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: JustFilms / Ford Foundation

    Production country United States of America

Overview

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.

Cast

  • Name: Aaron Douglas

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0.0071

  • Name: Richard Bruce Nugent

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0.0071

  • Name: Ernest Crichlow

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0.0071

  • Name: Eubie Blake

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 1.4039

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  • Name: Leigh Whipper

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0.442

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  • Name: Arna Bontemps

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0.0071

  • Name: William Greaves

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0.316

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  • Name: James Van Der Zee

    Character: Self (archival footage)

    Popularity: 0