Anyone ever seen this flick made about Frankie Crocker starring Calvin Lockheart? I need 2 get my hands on this flick. It was one of my movies when I was a kid.

http://www.blackclassicmo...linda.html

I watched the film once long time ago,,,,,and the only one good thing I remember about it was Ms.Rosalind Cash.

Cool movie. Something fun to watch on a boring weekend. Calvin Lockhart was a great actor.

I wonder whatever happened to Vonetta McKee?

SPYZFAN1 said:

Cool movie. Something fun to watch on a boring weekend. Calvin Lockhart was a great actor.

I wonder whatever happened to Vonetta McKee?

The last thing I've seen from her was in Charles Burnett's masterpiece "To Sleep With Anger" starring Danny Glover. The movie's IMDB page says its from 1990.

I saw this film, but never realized it was based on Frankie Crocker.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Cool movie. Something fun to watch on a boring weekend. Calvin Lockhart was a great actor.

I wonder whatever happened to Vonetta McKee?

Vonetta McGee (Eiger Sanction, Blacula...., Lonette McKee (Sparkle, Jungle Fever...) They're often confused.

My bad. Love both of them. Lonette is still around and she still looks the same. But you never hear about Vonetta.

SPYZFAN1 said:

My bad. Love both of them. Lonette is still around and she still looks the same. But you never hear about Vonetta.

You got me really curious and I started trying remember what it was that I knew about her. I had thought she was married to the actor, Max Julien, but I guess they were just a couple back in the 70s when they made "Thomasine and Bushrod." Anyway, she's been married to the actor, Carl Lumbly, since the 80's so maybe she's just at home being a wife and mother. I haven't heard anything nor can I find anything new about her. You really peaked my curiosity, though!

I'm glad to hear that she is still alive. Didn't know she was married to Carl. He's a great actor too.

"Thomasine and Bushrod"?..That movie is classic! I'm not a western movie fan but I loved that movie. Saw it for the 1st time about a year ago. Vonetta and Max had really good chemistry.

I also thought Vonetta was great in the movie "Hammer" with Fred Williamson. I guess once those

films in the late 70's dried up Vonetta moved on. I wish I could see what she looks like now.

NewPowerSista said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

My bad. Love both of them. Lonette is still around and she still looks the same. But you never hear about Vonetta.

You got me really curious and I started trying remember what it was that I knew about her. I had thought she was married to the actor, Max Julien, but I guess they were just a couple back in the 70s when they made "Thomasine and Bushrod." Anyway, she's been married to the actor, Carl Lumbly, since the 80's so maybe she's just at home being a wife and mother. I haven't heard anything nor can I find anything new about her. You really peaked my curiosity, though!

This is just unbelievable! we were just wondering about Vonetta McGee ealier this month and sadly, she died just this week.

Vonetta McGee: Leading La...ack Voices

Vonetta McGee, an actress who scaled the ranks of Black Hollywood during blaxploitation film era of the 1970s, passed away after experiencing cardiac arrest and being on life support for two days. She was 65, though some have her year of birth listed as 1940.

McGee appeared opposite Fred Williamson in the black action movie 'Hammer' in 1972, and had starring roles in the crime-drama 'Melinda' and the popular horror film 'Blacula.'

Los Angeles Times movie reviewer once considered McGee "one of the busiest and most beautiful black actresses."

The San Francisco native also appeared with Richard Roundtree in 'Shaft in Africa' (1973), and co-starred with her lover, Max Julien, in 'Thomasine & Bushrod' (1974).McGee also appeared with Clint Eastwood in the 1975 action-thriller 'The Eiger Sanction,' which was considered a coup for a black actress during that period.

"I was pleased to see her get a role with Clint Eastwood," Williamson told the Los Angeles Times. "Not many black actors had that opportunity to be in a movie where color doesn't matter."

"Vonetta McGee was like a lot of actors and actresses at that time, like myself, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, Billy Dee Williams and Pam Grier, in that we had more talent than we were allowed to show because everything was perceived as a black project. Once they categorize you, your marketability becomes limited," he added.

Known to be outspoken herself, McGee didn't care too much for the "blaxploitation" label that was attached to many of the films of her heyday. The label, she said, was used ""like racism, so you don't have to think of the individual elements, just the whole. If you study propaganda, you understand how this works."

On a segment of 'Soul Train' in 1974, McGee joked that she had to go through a "lot of pain" to get her acting career started. In actuality, she attended San Francisco State college when she got involved with a local acting group. McGee launched her film career in 1968 in Italy, where she debuted in the spaghetti western 'The Great Silence' and played the title role in the comedy 'Faustina.'
While starring in several episodes of the 1980s drama series 'Cagney & Lacey,' alongside Carl Lumbly, McGee fell in love with the dashing actor.

"I still remember the first day she came on the set -- it was August 21,1984 -- and we were scheduled to do a bedroom scene," Lumbly reflected in a 1989 Ebony magazine profile on celebrity couples. "Later, when we left the set I realized we were holding hands ... We married two years later."

The couple had a son, Brandon, in 1988.

According to family spokeswoman Kelley Nayo, McGee had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 17, but her July 9 death was not related to the disease.

In addition to her husband and son, she is survived by her mother, Alma McGee; three brothers, Donald, Richard and Ronald McGee; and a sister, Alma McGee.

Damn. ..That is so sad. Tommorow is never promised. Gotta tell your loved ones you love them while they're still here.

R.I.P.