Susan George blacklisted in Hollywood, after love scene with Ken Norton

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What I remember about the love scene is that Ken Norton was so much bigger than Susan George he made her look like a toddler in the closeups.

chesterrodney: “Susan George couldn't get another major role in Hollywood after ‘Mandingo’. She was reduced to ‘B’ type movies and made for TV movies after that. Hollywood didn't want to see her in any major films or major acting roles after her love scene with Ken Norton in ‘Mandingo’. Hollywood to this day is scared of showing black love. And they don't want to see a big muscular black man with a white woman!”

That is a black racist fantasy. Over twenty years after Mandingo, when white actors were shown making passionate love to even a half-black woman (Halle Berry), blacks went nuts.

Susan George had specialized in playing sluts before Mandingo, she played one in Mandingo, and she continued playing such roles thereafter. Since Mandingo was itself a trashy B-movie, the notion that her career went downhill thereafter, is ludicrous. Besides, you provide no evidence that she was blacklisted (or is it, whitelisted?). All you have are your racist fantasies.

Sidney Poitier had already broken the particular color line you speak of in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967, an A-movie if ever there was one, which was nominated for ten Oscars, and won two.

Jim Brown had his famous shower scene with Raquel Welch in 100 Rifles in 1969. And Raquel Welch is white, was considered white at the time (Hispanic whites are more obsessed with their whiteness than are non-Hispanic whites), and only very recently, for opportunistic reasons, decided to publicly become a “proud Latina.”

(http://www.google.com/search?hs=cGS&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=%22Raquel+Welch%22&as_q=%22proud+Latina%22&btnG=Search%C2%A0within%C2%A0results)

And important independent movies, such as One Potato, Two Potato in 1964, had already explored interracial love affairs between black men and white women. Chesterrodney has invented a non-existent issue, in order to vindicate his racist fantasies. If anything, Hollywood, like the mainstream media in general, has an allergy against showing black WOMEN in the arms of white MEN.

chesterrodney (later): “As for Susan George, I never said she was blacklisted from ‘A’ list status in Hollywood. I said she was blacklisted from getting roles in major Hollywood movies.”

Although he never used the word “blacklisted” in his first statement, Chesterrodney obviously meant just that. But he not only uses the term in his second statement, he goes beyond simply contradicting an earlier statement, to contradicting himself from one sentence to the next! Way to go, man! You not only boglerized movie history, you boglerized logic, as well!

To boglerize – my coinage – refers to the practice of film “historian” Donald Bogle of misrepresenting movie history by recounting pictures in which blacks played minor roles, as if the blacks were the stars and the actual white stars were invisible, of ignoring dominant performances by whites in movies in which they co-starred with black performers (e.g., Rod Steiger (or “Stieger,” as Bogle calls him) and Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night), while dishonestly celebrating the black performer, and most pathetically, of routinely misspelling the names of white actors, while never doing so with the names of black performers.

(http://www.google.com/search?hs=ydT&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=%22Donald+Bogle%22&btnG=Search)

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Raquel Welch is half-white, half-Hispanic/Latina.(The omnly other Hispanic whites I know of are Raquel's daughter Tawnee, SuzanneVega and Cameron Diaz) Her character in 100 rifles was Native American so what you saw was a blackman and a Native American woman having an inter-racial relationship. The only inter-racial sex scene I know of from the 70s was The Eiger Sanction whe Clint Eastwood made love to Vonetta McGee. How did people react to that?

Hollywood liberals are the worst bigots, and most other liberals don't know it. They're a hell of a lot worse than what they claim Joe McCarthy was.

There is another example of interracial relationships on moves, Jane Alexander and James Earl Jones appeared in "The Great White Hope" 1970, and this movie was filmed before "Mandingo". Jane Alexander is totally an american girl and she wasn't blacklisted of "A" or "B" or "Z" Hollywood movies. In fact, she received three Oscar nominations after this part (Oscar Nominated too).

I don't know about the blacklisting but, I dought it. She did make a movie in 1974 that is considered a cult classic and made millions all over the world called "Dirty Mary crazy Larry" with Peter Fonda. I have this on DVD and I love it.It has some fantastic real stuntwork in it. This is a very entertaining movie. I think it is the best one I've seen her in. BTW this DVD has a very good featurette with interviews with Peter Fonda,Susan George,and the Director.This featurette also points out part of what I'm saying, so I definitely wouldn't say she never did any really good movies. Of course this is no academy award movie but again, very entertaining in my opinion and I wouldn't give up my DVD. BTW "Mandingo" was a MOVIE not a documentary. It was made for entertainment. If I can get the DVD I will. My VHS copy is getting old.

She was not blacklisted. She was a lousy actress. I saw that, when I saw this movie, and I was 16 years old, and I could tell she was a lousy actress. Even in Dirty Mary/Crazy Larry, she was insipid.
She went back to England, and is still acting, and Directing.
Big deal about Mandingo. She sucked !

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