![]() ![]() Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre created a stage play from the book in 1941 and Jacqueline Najima Stewart (co-curator of Kino Lorber's Pioneers of African American Cinema) informs us in the intro to the film that "white southern playwright Paul Green, who was adapting the novel for the stage, tried to tone down the Wright's existential edge but producer Housemen refused to dilute the content and worked on the play with Wright in secret." "Native Son" had the honor of being the first book by an African-American author to be selected for the Book of the Month Club but it was only approved after certain passages were removed. The story behind "Native Son" is almost as interesting as the story writer Richard Wright crafts. Now you have the opportunity to see the fully restored and uncensored film of "Native Son" through Kino Marquee. ![]() Richard Wright’s book "Native Son" was published in 1940 and made into a film in 1951. ![]()
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