[Photographs of Dotts Johnson].

[New York, New York], [circa 1946-1957]

13 photographs : black and white prints ; 26 x 21 cm and smaller

Purchased from Royal Books on The Bradford F. and Lila L. Swan Fund, 2016.

This material is open for research.

Dotts Johnson (1913-1986) was an African American actor, composer, and singer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland as Hylan Johnson, he is best known for his roles in Paisan and The Joe Louis Story.

13 photographs of Dotts Johnson taken by unidentified photographers, circa 1946-1957. Images depicting Johnson include two studio portraits; a film still from the motion picture No Way Out; four film stills from the short film Tall, Tan, and Terrific; a portrait with Maria Michi; and two photographs with unidentified persons. Also includes a portrait of film director Roberto Rossellini; and two photographs of the World Theater in New York, New York, where the motion picture Paisan, also known as Paisà, is playing. Accompanied by a typescript copy of Johnson’s résumé with manuscript notes.

English

January 25, 2021

Photographs of Dotts Johnson. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Photographs of Dotts Johnson. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Actors United States 20th century.