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    Bright Road is a 1953 low-budget film adapted from the Christopher Award -winning short story "See How They Run" by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. Directed by Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to communicate with a problem student.

  2. Bright Road: Directed by Gerald Mayer. With Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte, Barbara Randolph. Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award.

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    • Drama, Music
    • Gerald Mayer
    • 1953-04-17
  3. MGM shed its glamorous image and bucked conventional wisdom when it financed Bright Road, a low-budget 1953 drama with an almost all-black cast. Even as an African-American film, Bright Road was an anomaly for the period, being neither a musical nor a treatment of racial issues.

    • Gerald Mayer, George Rhein
    • Dorothy Dandridge
  4. Bright Road (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  5. First-time teacher Jane Richards (Dorothy Dandridge) is troubled to learn that one of her students, C.T. Young (Philip Hepburn), has a history of taking two years to complete each grade....

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    • Manny Farber
    • Drama
    • Gerald Mayer
  6. Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and liar.

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  8. Apr 10, 2012 · Bright Road (1953) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #BrightRoad A year before they shot to stardom in Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonté made this inspiring film about a gifted ...

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