Lillian Randolph in All-American Co-Ed 1941

[TheAdelaidehall]

"Goodbye, Miss Maltida!" Amen. I love Lillian Randolph so THANK YOU for posting this great comedy clip. I checked her out on You Tube coz I just watched The Glass Key (1942) where she appears briefly as the "Basement club singer" and sings a wonderful blues number at the piano. Her "Annie" in the 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life is also memorable.

[JerseySurvivor]

@TheAdelaidehall Lillian Randolph was the best. An unsung heroine from the Golden Age of films. She was great in ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH and even in a tiny one line spot in HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE. She was tops!

[TheAdelaidehall]

@JerseySurvivor Lillian has certainly been overlooked in the African American movie histories in favour of the better known Hattie McDaniel and Louise Beavers. I am impressed with the length of her movie/TV career. She just kept going...I have Sweet Charlotte on DVD and will look at it again, just to see if I can spot Lillian. But I had no idea that she was the voice of Mammy in the Tom & Jerry cartoons. I watched these on TV when I was a kid, and often wondered who Mammy was.

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@TheAdelaidehall The song she sang in "The Glass Key" is entitled "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" written by Hollywood and Broadway composers Jule Styne and Frank Loesser. It is a standard pop tune written in standard song format, not a wonderful "Blues" number written in 12 bar Blues format. The song setting or its singer do not make it a "Blues" "Ave Maria" sang in the exact same setting by this same singer would not be a Blues. Just like a symphony, format is the key.

[MollyGotTalent]

why that other woman doing this to lillian?

[mhand00]

@MollyGotTalent Its not a woman, its a man in woman's dress and I suspect he is trying to get back his own clothes.

[koolj1994]

Mrs. Mitildy... good lord.

[cheetie72]

She cracked me up in tom And jerry

[kabool2]

tomaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

[waynebrasler]

Birdie in "The Great Gildersleeve" radio shows and films and she made a fortune later in life in T.V. commercials. A great singer too. An unusual aspect of the Gildersleeve show was Birdie was a live-in housemaid who pretty much was the kids' trusted surrogate mother and she had a social life.

[lance153]

tom and jerry

[burra007]

I don't know this program, but a role that I know very well of her is mammy two shoes, the most recurrent and probably the most popular owner of tom on "tom & jerry"

[burra007]

oh, forgot to mention something, rest in peace

[buzzlewie]

Aunt Hazal from Sanford and Son.

[airjor1]

Right you are!

[JerseySurvivor]

A Hollywood Great!!!