| Gene Nelson -- No "White Privilege" Benefit? | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 09:35 am EST 03/07/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:28 am EST 03/07/21 | |
| In reply to: Gene Nelson should have been a much bigger star - PlayWiz 12:21 pm EST 03/06/21 | |
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| Nelson was a talented, good-looking guy and an amazing dancer. Unfortunately, with the exception of playing Will Parker in Oklahoma!, his film career consisted of (initially) uncredited small parts, followed by mediocre musicals with Doris Day, Virginia Mayo, Jane Powell, and Gloria DeHaven, and then leads or non-leads in low budget, often terrible thrillers and westerns. Eventually he went into television. Just like 99.9% of all film performers in the 30's, 40's and 50's, Hollywood chewed him up and spit him out. Being talented, but white didn't spare him from the same fate which befell most Asian, Black, and Native American aspiring movie performers. |
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