Willor Lee Guilford
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Willor Lee Guilford (January 13, 1912 - ?){{cite web |title=Willor Lee Guilford |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346944/ |website=IMDb |access-date=1 December 2020}} was an African American actress. She had substantial parts in several films including at least three Oscar Micheaux films.
Career
She portrayed the victim of a stalker in Ten Minutes to Live.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/oscar-micheaux-the-first-black-auteur|title=Oscar Micheaux, the First Black Auteur|first=Richard|last=Brody|magazine=The New Yorker|date=12 August 2016 }} In the film, she receives a note from the villain telling her she will be killed in 10 minutes.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-19-ca-14700-story.html|title=Swanson's Rarely Seen 'Queen Kelly' to Screen|first1=Kevin|last1=Thomas|date=June 19, 1995|website=Los Angeles Times}}
Later life
Guilford opened a millinery shop in Brooklyn, New York ("Willor's Hat Shop") after retiring from her film career. She eventually retired to Jacksonville, Florida.
Filmography
- Easy Street (1930){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&q=easy+street+Oscar+Micheaux&pg=PA346|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=August 7, 1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520209640|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&q=willor+lee+guilford&pg=PA1012|title = Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960|isbn = 9780520209640|last1 = Gevinson|first1 = Alan|year = 1997| publisher=University of California Press }}
- A Daughter of the Congo (1930){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTGSCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Willor+lee+guilford%22&pg=PA45|title=African American Films Through 1959|isbn=9781476610528|last1=Richards|first1=Larry|date=17 September 2015|publisher=McFarland }}
- Ten Minutes to Live (1932){{Cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/2232|title=AFI|Catalog|website=catalog.afi.com}} as Letha Watkins{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqUqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Willor+lee+guilford%22|title=Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration : Essays/interviews|first=Scott|last=MacDonald|date=August 7, 2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520258549|via=Google Books}}
- Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7I9STY5HkA&list=PLKeYAp9ZwMLutR7-1x-DQ_aSF2-5jOOsf&index=44&t=0s "Preview Clip: Ten Minutes to Live"] featuring Willor Lee Guilford
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Businesspeople from Brooklyn
Category:Actresses from Florida