In late 1948, Harry Belafonte was having trouble finding work as an actor. At the time, he was performing with New York's American Negro Theater and studying at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School in Greenwich Village. Appearing in the theater's production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Belafonte had to sing a song. He had no musical training …
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