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"The Green Pastures" was an American television play first broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1957, as part of the television series Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was adapted from Marc Connelly's 1930 Pulitzer Prize–winning play which was in turn adapted from Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928).
The Green Pastures: Directed by George Schaefer. With William Warfield, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Harry Baird, Terry Carter. God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
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 story, set in a black Sunday school in the deep South, relates incidents from the Bible -- seen in a series of vignettes -- as a young teacher preaches to her students. Based on Roark Bradford's book, "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'" and the play by Marc Connelly.
"You gotta git your minds fixed," the rural preacher tells Sunday School children. And the best way to do that fixin' is from Old Testament stories narrated by the preacher, played by a black cast,...
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An elderly black man reads from the Book of Genesis to a group of six young children in his house. He answers their questions about God and creation. One of the girls starts to visualize heaven... We enter the pearly gates to an all-black heaven, with winged angels sitting on clouds.
