In 1938, Muse co-starred with boxer Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth, the fictional story of a champion boxer, which featured an all-black cast. Shot on a farm in the South with nonprofessional actors (except for Muse), the film's early scenes focused in a highly realistic manner on the physical labor of plowing scenes with black farmers. He was the major star in The Broken Earth (1936), which related the story of a black sharecropper whose son miraculously recovers from fever through the father's fervent prayer. Later it became a signature song of Louis Armstrong. The song was sung by Nina Mae McKinney in the movie Safe in Hell (1931). In 1931, with Leon René and Otis René, Muse wrote "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", also known as "Sleepy Time Down South". ![]() Muse was also the co-writer of several notable songs. In 1943, he became the first African-American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun. ![]() Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. He performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. ![]() Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.". Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences "because, in a way, it was every black man's story. In regards to the Lafayette Theatre's staging of Dr. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. By the 1920s Muse was acting in New York during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players.
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