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The Green Pastures
The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. It had the first all-black Broadway cast. The play and the film adaptation were generally well received and hailed by white drama and film critics. African-American intellectuals, cultural critics, and audiences were more critical of Connelly's claim
focusing the narrative on Saint Peter and his Stepin Fetchit underling, the animators ducked the potential offense white audiences might have felt upon seeing a black God.
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- Many Hollywood cartoons from the 1930s are based on feature films. Therefore, it was only natural for Leon Schlesinger's cartoon studio to parody the 1936 Warner Bros. musical film "The Green Pastures", itself an adaptation of a play by Marc Connelly which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. "The Green Pastures" features an all-