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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.
Bright Road is a film based on a true story of a young teacher who helps a troubled student in the South. It features Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and a butterfly metaphor.
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- Drama, Music
- Gerald Mayer
- 1953-04-17
Bright Road is a film based on a story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, about a teacher and a rebellious boy in the South. The boy finds a cocoon and a butterfly, and gives them to his teacher as a gift.
Bright Road is a musical film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte as a couple who face racial prejudice and poverty. See the full list of actors, writers, directors, producers and other crew members on IMDb.
Bright Road is a movie about a teacher who tries to help a slow learner in a racially segregated school. The film stars Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, and Harry Belafonte, and was released in 1953.
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- Manny Farber
- Drama
- Gerald Mayer
Bright Road is a 1953 film based on a short story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte as teachers at an all-black school. The film explores their challenges and triumphs in educating and inspiring their students, especially a problem child.
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Dandridge plays Jane Richards, a fourth-grade teacher concerned about young C.T. (Philip Hepburn), a student whose indifference to school has even the principal (screen-debuting Belafonté) calling him a backwards child.
