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The Notorious Elinor Lee is a 1940 race film directed, written, and co-produced by the African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux . Plot. Elinor Lee, a gangster’s moll living in the Harlem section of New York City, has signed up-and-coming boxer Benny Blue to a 10-year contract.
The Notorious Elinor Lee: Directed by Oscar Micheaux. With Gladys Williams, Robert Earl Jones, Carman Newsome, Edna Mae Harris. Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
While visiting sports bosses Farbacker and Feretti, gangster moll Elinor Lee tells them that she has a fighter named Benny Blue under contract for ten years. Confident that the chances of a black man becoming boxing champion are remote, they plan to make $500,000 by building him up and then forcing him to take a dive and throw a fight.
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Country: United States Language: English. About the film: Micheaux’s final surviving film. Starring Robert Earl Jones as Benny Blue, a heavyweight contender modeled after Joe Louis, and Gladys Williams as gangster moll Elinor Lee, who buys Blue’s 10-year contract with plans to make him throw a championship fight.
