Sybil Lewis (actress)
{{Short description|American actress}}
Sybil Lewis was an actress in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/sybil-lewis-the-super-star-of-miracle-in-harlem-1948-video/|title=Sybil Lewis, The Trailblazing Super Star Of "Miracle In Harlem," 1948 (Video)|first=Harlem World|last=Magazine|date=August 25, 2017}} An African American, she appeared in several films including musicals during the 1940s. She appeared in African American films (race films) and Hollywood pictures. She had starring roles in several African American films including Lucky Gamblers and Am I Guilty? and portrayed smaller roles including as a maid in Hollywood films. She also had a leading role in Broken Strings (film) in 1940.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&q=%22sybil+lewis%22+actress+obituary&pg=PA174|title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960|first1=America Film Institute|last1=Staff|first2=Alan|last2=Gevinson|first3=American Film|last3=Institute|first4=American Film|last4=Afi|date=February 15, 1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520209640|via=Google Books}}
She starred with Pigmeat Markham and John Bunn, Jr. in vaudeville shows at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVsKAgAAQBAJ&q=%22sybil+lewis%22+actress+obituary&pg=PA1410|title=Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows|first=Henry T.|last=Sampson|date=October 30, 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810883512|via=Google Books}}
Born
Sybil N. Sanford in San Francisco, California, USA
Died
September 28, 1988 (age 68)
San Mateo County, California, USA
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Filmography
- Am I Guilty? (1940){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kvfCwAAQBAJ&q=am+i+guilty%3F+sybil+lewis&pg=PA72|title=Tappin' at the Apollo: The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper|first=Cheryl M.|last=Willis|date=May 2, 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476623153|via=Google Books}}
- Mystery in Swing (1940), as Cleo Ellis{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&q=cleo+ellis+sybil+lewis&pg=PA695|title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960|first1=America Film Institute|last1=Staff|first2=Alan|last2=Gevinson|first3=American Film|last3=Institute|first4=American Film|last4=Afi|date=February 15, 1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520209640|via=Google Books}}
- Broken Strings (film) (1940){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYlZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22sybil+lewis%22+singer|title=Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography|first=Alan G.|last=Fetrow|date=January 1, 1994|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780899509143|via=Google Books}} as Grace
- Revenge of the Zombies (1943) as Rosella
- Going My Way (1944), maid at Metropolitan Opera House{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYlZAAAAMAAJ&q=going+my+way+sybil+lewis+maid|title=Feature Films, 1940-1949: A United States Filmography|first=Alan G.|last=Fetrow|date=January 1, 1994|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780899509143|via=Google Books}}
- The Very Thought of You (1944){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ioVxWH6Vkp0C&q=the+very+thoughtofyou+sybil+lewis&pg=PA38|title=Eleanor Parker: Woman of a Thousand Faces|first=Doug|last=McClelland|date=February 15, 2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810848368|via=Google Books}}
- Lucky Gamblers (1946)
- Midnight Menace (1946){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTGSCgAAQBAJ&q=%22sybil+lewis%22+singer&pg=PA112|title=African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography|first=Larry|last=Richards|date=September 17, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476610528|via=Google Books}}
- Boy! What a Girl! (1947), as Mme. Deborah Martin
- ''Miracle in Harlem (1948) as Alice Adams
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Category:American film actresses