https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/moses-lucia-lynn-c-1906/
Lucia Lynn Moses. Born December 23, 1906, Washington D.C. - Died October 1984, New York
She was a P. K. (preacher's kid), a chorus girl at the famous Cotton Club and a theater performer.to her family's chagrin. Her two sisters (Ethel and Julia) followed her into acting, becoming part of Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux's stable.
Her sole film was The Scar of Shame, a 1927 movie shot in Philadelphia during the day as she had to be at her other job in NYC at night at the club. The movie has been incorrectly labeled a Micheaux work but it is not. Its plot showed intra-racial conflcit by highlighting a troubled married couple unable to resolve marital problems that end in a divorce and a suicide. Moses' performance was praised as touching, authentic and heartbreaking. A tour de force.
Moses returned to theater and subsequently married a pianist and retired.
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