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Charleston Parade

Charleston Parade is a short 1927 futuristic sensual dance fantasy film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Renoir's wife Catherine Hessling and the African American mime artist Johnny Hudgins. Hudgins performs in blackface.

Plot
In 2028, Europe has been destroyed by a devastating war. An African scientist decides to explore in a flying bubble. Arriving over what remains of Paris, he sets his craft down on the roof of a Morris advertising column, which serves as shelter for a beautiful white aboriginal wild woman, whose only companion is a monkey. When the wild woman discovers that the foreign explorer has arrived, she ties him to the column and performs a sensual ritual dance for him. The prisoner realises that this is a Charleston, the original dance of his people, traces of which have been lost for ages. The white dancer frees the explorer and teaches him to dance. Happily—but to the great despair of the monkey—they both climb into the flying bubble and take off for Africa. And a cardboard box warns us that this is how the dance of the white aborigines entered Africa. File:Catherine Hessling and Johnny Hudgins 1927.jpg File:1927 charleston parade 005 johnny hudgins.jpg File:1927 charleston parade 004 catherine hessling.jpg File:Catherine Hessling and Johnny Hudgins in Charleston Parade 1927.jpg ==Cast==
Cast
Catherine Hessling as Parisian Savage • Johnny Hudgins as African Explorer • Pierre Braunberger as Angel • André Cerf as Angel • Pierre Lestringuez as Angel • Jean Renoir as Angel ==Notes==
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