The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Gertrude Hadley Jeannette

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Gertrude Hadley Jeannette

6/9/2005

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.133

Actress, stage director, and playwright Gertrude Hadley Jeannette (1914 - 2018 ) founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players theater company in Harlem, York City. Jeannette was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/9/2005, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 49m 52s

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Jeannette, Gertrude, 1914-

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Playwright, producer, director, and actress of the stage and screen, Gertrude Hadley Jeannette, was born in Urbana, Arkansas, on November 28, 1914, to Willis Lawrence Hadley and Salley Gertrude Crawford Hadley. Jeannette was raised in Arkansas where she attended Dunbar High School in Little Rock. Just before her high school graduation, Jeannette decided that she wanted to get married instead of attending Fisk University, as she had previously planned; she and Joe Jeannette, II, a prizefighter an...