Sometimes you have to create your own history.
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
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Cast
Cheryl Dunye Cheryl
Guinevere Turner Diana Valarie Walker Tamara
Lisa Marie Bronson Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards
Cheryl Clarke June Walker Irene Dunye Self
Brian Freeman Lee Edwards
Ira Jeffries Shirley Hamilton
Alexandra Juhasz Martha Page
Camille Paglia Self
Sarah Schulman CLIT Archivist V.S. Brodie Karaoke Singer
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