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Josephine Premice
Haitian-American actress
Josephine Premice | |
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| Born | Josephine Mary Premice ()July 21, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 13, () (aged&#;74) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Children | Susan Fales-Hill Enrico Fales |
Josephine Mary Premice (July 21, – April 13, ) was a Haitian-American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage.
Early life
Josephine Mary Premice was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Thelomaine and Lucas Premice.[1] Her parents were part of the Haitian aristocracy who fled Haiti; her ancestor, Napoleon Premice, was a Haitian-born Black veteran of the U.S. Revolutionary War.[2]
Her father, Lucas Premice, who claimed the title Count de Brodequin in the Haitian nobility, was part of a failed rebellion to try to overthrow the Haitian head of state.
He was imprisoned in Guiana for his role in the plot, and both he and a fellow prisoner to whom he was chained were forced to escape and flee through the woods to friends that awaited them on the coast. On the third day of their journey, the other man died, and Lucas is said to have had to cut off the man's arm to free himself from the chains. He was brought to France, where he learned to cut fur for the couturiers.
Josephine premice and timothy fales
She and her estranged husband, Timothy Fales, had two children, Enrico Fales (b. ) and Susan Fales-Hill (b. ). [5] In , her daughter published a biography of her mother titled Always Wear Joy: My Mother, Bold and Beautiful. [6].He eventually immigrated to New York in the early s.
Premice and her sister, Adele, were given the education and training of an "at-home finishing school" and treated like part of the elite, at a time when African Americans were treated as second-class citizens, even in the northern states.
Theatre
Premice made her Broadway debut in a revue show called Blue Holiday.
The show was choreographed by Katherine Dunham, with whom Josephine had studied dance and her co-star was Ethel Waters.
Josephine premise photo Josephine Premice died in her Manhattan apartment on April 13, , at the age of 74 from complications of Emphysema. Her estranged husband, Timothy Fales, and her two children, Enrico Fales and Susan Fales-Hill, survived her.She was in the pre-Broadway cast of the musical House of Flowers with Diahann Carroll and Pearl Bailey. Josephine was nominated for a Tony Award for her work in the musical Jamaica as Ginger alongside leading lady Lena Horne. Her next Broadway appearance in A Hand Is on the Gate, where she performed African American poetry works alongside James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and Gloria Foster, garnered her a second Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award nomination.
Her final Broadway appearance came in with the musical Bubbling Brown Sugar. Reviewing the production in The New York Times, Clive Barnes wrote that Ms. Premice "can almost make a feather boa come alive."[3]
Film and television
Premice appeared as Louise Belefonte on the final weeks of the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm.
She played a supporting role in the television movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as Ms. Gautier. She guest-starred on The Jeffersons in , playing Louise Jefferson's sister, and The Cosby Show in Between and , she guest-starred as Desiree Porter (after an initial appearance as Erdine Abernathy) in several episodes of A Different World.
Josephine premice The author's parents Josephine Premice and Timothy Fales shortly after their wedding in On a side table in my childhood home sat a silver cigarette lighter, engraved with the words "Who.Later years
An alumna of Columbia University with a degree in anthropology,[4] she was also known for her calypso recordings and fashion sense.
Premice died in her Manhattan residence on April 13, , at the age of 74 from complications of emphysema. She and her estranged husband, Timothy Fales, had two children, Enrico Fales (b.
) and Susan Fales-Hill (b.
).[5] In , her daughter published a biography of her mother titled Always Wear Joy: My Mother, Bold and Beautiful.[6]
References
- ^Josephine Premice immigration record Retrieved August 3,
- ^"A Black mother's letter to her daughter".
. June 19, Retrieved August 16,
- ^Josephine Premice, 74, Actress Who Dazzled on Broadway from The New York Times April 17,
- ^"Josephine Premice…Broadway Star and Black Socialite". July 18,
- ^Josephine Premice, 74, Actress Who Dazzled on Broadway from The New York Times April 17,
- ^Always Wear Joy: My Mother, Bold and Beautiful from Google Books