Stepin Fetchit (1902 - 1985)

American vaudevillian, comedian and film actor, of Jamaican descent

* May 30, 1902 Key West, Florida, USA
 as Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry
 November 19, 1985 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA


Vintage magazines

Photoplay, June 1929
Photoplay, June 1929
Photoplay, June 1929

Photoplay, June 1929
Photoplay, June 1929
Photoplay, August 1929

Photoplay, August 1929
Photoplay, August 1930
Photoplay, January 1931

Photoplay, July 1931
Photoplay, April 1936

Books on Stepin Fetchit

Mel Watkins Stepin Fetchit Mel Watkins
Stepin Fetchit, The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
2006

Books with substantial mentioning of Stepin Fetchit

Patrice Petro (ed.)
Idols of modernity, Movie stars of the 1920s
New Brunswick, N.J., 2010

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard
Hollywood Players, The Thirties
New Rochelle, New York, 1976

Books with an entry on Stepin Fetchit

Danny Peary Cult Movie Stars Danny Peary
Cult Movie Stars
New York, [..], 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1986, A Survey of the Films of 1985
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986
p. 579 info

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979

Articles on Stepin Fetchit

Charlene Regester, Stepin Fetchit: The man, the image, and the African American press, in: Film History, vol. 6, 1994 pp. 502-521