Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) was a pioneer in black cinema, making films with black casts for black audiences from the silent era into the Truman administration. Financing alone couldn't have been easy so admiration where admiration is due, but 'God's Step Children' is bad. Real bad.
There are things here that if a white person said them... well seem kinda racist. One of the worst acted films I have ever seen, this melodrama features a love triangle where two of the corners were raised together as foster siblings. *
Jacqueline Lewis who played the young Naomi went on to serve 14 years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Republican.
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