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Lollypop Jones
Onnie "Lollypop" Jones (November 8, 1897 – August 22, 1954)〔( Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941. Microfilm publication M1916, 134 rolls. ARC ID: 596118. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92. National Archives at Washington, D.C., ''Ancestry.com'' )〕 was an American vaudeville entertainer and movie comedian, popular among African-American audiences in the 1940s.
Born in Madison, Georgia,〔〔( U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, ''Ancestry.com'' )〕 he worked as a singer, dancer and comedian in vaudeville. In 1927, he appeared in a traveling revue, ''Keep Movin.〔( Bernard L. Peterson Jr., ''A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans'', ABC-CLIO, 1993, p.207 )〕 He also performed in nightclubs, including the Dew Drop Inn, in New Orleans 〔〔(Jeff Hannusch, "The South's Swankiest Night Spot: The Legend of the Dew Drop Inn", ''IkoIko.com'' ). Retrieved 7 September 2015〕 He made commercials for Jax Beer, and took the starring role in several movies including ''Midnight Menace'' (also known as ''The Hidden Menace''), ''Lucky Gamblers'', and ''Chicago After Dark''.〔( Lollypop Jones search results, ''eMovie.com'' )〕〔( ''The Hidden Menace'', Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies, University of Miami )〕 In ''Midnight Menace'' (1946), Jones plays a version of himself in a 24-minute all-black musical comedy film.〔( "Midnight Menace", ''BlackHorrorMovies.com'' )〕 These and many similar films were made on a low budget by the All-American News company in Chicago, and were shown almost exclusively in African-American movie theaters.〔( ''Chicago After Dark'', ''SeparateCinema.com'' )〕
Jones died in 1954, following a lengthy illness.〔( ''The Pittsburgh Courier'', September 4, 1954, p.3 )〕
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