Evelyn Preer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Evelyn Preer

American actress and singer

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1896

Place of Birth: Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1932

Profession: singer, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Evelyn Preer (born Evelyn Jarvis; July 26, 1896 – November 17, 1932), was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and jazz and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Preer was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen." She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity.
She appeared in ground-breaking films and stage productions, such as the first play by a black playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the first New York-style production with a black cast in California in 1928, in a revival of a play adapted from Somerset Maugham's Rain.