As actors, Paul Robeson and Lena Horne both
a. found that, despite their acclaimed performances on stage, they would only be cast in the roles of servants in films.
b. tried to accept only roles which portrayed blacks positively and resisted playing demeaning or stereotypical roles.
c. refused to combine their politics with their film careers, a stance which made them more palatable to white audiences than other black actors of the day.
d. cultivated screen personae based on mumbling, shuffling buffoonery which film scholars now recognize as sly digs against racial stereotypes.
b. tried to accept only roles which portrayed blacks positively and resisted playing demeaning or stereotypical roles.
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