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- <text id=94TT0897>
- <title>
- Jul. 11, 1994: Died:Fredi Washington
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jul. 11, 1994 From Russia, With Venom
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 15
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- <body>
- <p> DIED. FREDI WASHINGTON, 90, stage and screen actress; in Stamford,
- Connecticut. An early African-American film artist, Washington
- gave her greatest performance in the 1934 Claudette Colbert
- vehicle Imitation of Life, capturing the inner torment of a
- young woman who abandons her mother in order to "pass" as white.
- Washington was a founder of the Negro Actors Guild.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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