Lying Lips

Lying Lips
Movie poster
Directed byOscar Micheaux
Written byOscar Micheaux
Produced byHubert Julian
Oscar Micheaux
StarringEdna Mae Harris
Carman Newsome
Robert Earl Jones
CinematographyLester Lang
Edited byLeonard Weiss
Music byJack Shilkret
Production
company
Micheaux Film Corporation
Distributed bySack Amusement Enterprises
Release date
  • 1939 (1939)
Running time
60 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lying Lips is a 1939 American melodrama race film written and directed by Oscar Micheaux who co-produced the film with aviator Hubert Fauntlenroy Julian, starring Edna Mae Harris, and Robert Earl Jones (the father of James Earl Jones). Lying Lips was the thirty-seventh film of Micheaux.[1] The film was shot at the Biograph Studios in New York City.[2]

  1. ^ Green, J. Ronald. With a Crooked Stick: The Films of Oscar Micheaux (2004), p, 2 - ISBN 0-253-21715-6.
  2. ^ p. 375 Koszarski, Richard & Beauchamp, CariHollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff Rutgers University Press, 2008