State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 10025 Krin Gabbard Associate Professor Comparative Literature 212 749-1631 19-Jun-1994 10:14pm EDT FROM: KGABBARD TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re: blackface A propos of the discussion of BoaN and its aftermath, does anyone have a sense of when blackface ceased to be an accepted convention in American cinema? I mean, when was the last time it was used as a sign of old-fashioned entertainment prior to more "socially conscious" uses in films such as _Black Like Me_? As far as I can tell, the major studios stopped putting blackface performance into their films in 1951 when Doris Day of all people did an imitation of Al Jolson under cork in _I'll See You in My Dreams_ (1951). Krin Gabbard SUNY Stony Brook [log in to unmask]