Tap Roots is a 1948 Technicolor Western war film set during the American Civil War. It is very loosely based on the true life story of Newton Knight,...
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brief period during Reconstruction. Films about Knight have included Tap Roots (1948), directed by George Marshall, and Free State of Jones (2016), directed...
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series. Long signed a contract with Universal, for which he appeared in Tap Roots (1948) and Criss Cross (1949), playing Burt Lancaster's brother in the...
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eastwards into China. All are perennial herbaceous plants, with large tap roots and leaves in the form of a rosette. Individual flowers are bell-shaped...
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Nicholas Britell, Tim Fain & Caitlin Sullivan Slave states and free states Tap Roots, a 1948 film loosely based on the life story of Newton Knight Voting rights...
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Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music....
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other films, she played Rheba, a maid, in Junior Miss (1945), Dabby in Tap Roots (1948), the housekeeper in Three Little Girls in Blue (1946), Mrs. Kelso...
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(1947). She subsequently worked for Wanger on The Lost Moment (1948) and Tap Roots (1948). Both films lost money but the latter was widely seen. At Universal...
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Stanwyck in B.F.'s Daughter (1948) and was loaned to Walter Wanger for Tap Roots (1948), where he was top billed; both lost money. MGM cast him as Athos...
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