"Sometimes you have to create your own history."
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Cheryl DunyeDirector
Cheryl
Diana
Tamara
Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards
June Walker
Self
Lee Edwards
Shirley Hamilton
Martha Page
CLIT Archivist
Karaoke Singer
Annie Heath
Librarian
Street Musician
Bob
Yvette
Stacey
Photographer
Bride's Mother
Bride
Groom
Groom's Mother
Little White Girl
Little White Boy
Little Black Girl 1
Little Black Girl 2
Little Black Girl 3
Relative in Yamulke
"Plantation Memories" Mistress / Cassandra Brooke (photo)
"Souls of Deceit" Mulatto
Karaoke Cute Girl / Woman in Audience (photo)
Emcee
Black Banker on the Street
Black School Teacher on the Street
Sorry Rosie 1
Sorry Rosie 2
Sorry Rosie 3
Leather Girl on the Street
Bus Stop Girl 1
Bus Stop Girl 2
Street Queen in Library Line / Fred DeShields (photo)
Grungy White Boy
White Woman at Produce Truck
Produce Man
Diana's Black Date
White Girl Student 1
White Girl Student 2
White Boy Student
Poet
Drummer
Percussionist
Annie's Girlfriend
Mrs. Page-Fletcher
Her Maid
Newsreel Narrator (voice)
Police Officer
June's Next Door Neighbor
J. Liberty Wells
Josie
Butch at Party
White Bar Dyke
Eleanor Van Clyde
Claude Thornton
Ray Blake / NAACP
Sandra Vincent
Card Playing Dyke
Hambone Jones
Rent Party and White Bar Dyke
Femme at Party
Bobbi / Willa Clarke
NAACP
Set Stylist
Reba Richards / Banana Skirt
Margaret Fitzgerald
White Actress
