Edna Morton

Edna Morton (April 2, 1894 – July 31, 1980) was an American actress who was in films in the 1920s.[1][2] She starred in mainly race films most of them produced by Reol Productions.[1] Her most notable films being Spitfire (1922), Easy Money (1922), and The Call of His People (1921). She was also in a film by Oscar Micheaux called A Son of Satan (1924). She is known to have been in ten films in total.[1] She was referred to as "the colored Mary Pickford".[1]

  1. ^ a b c d Petersen, Christina (2008). "The 'Reol' Story: Race Authorship and Consciousness in Robert Levy's Reol Productions, 1921-1926". Indiana University Press. 20: 308–324 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ "Looking Back on Blacks in Films". Ebony. 28: 42. June 1973 – via Google Books.