Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts. Mabley appeared in the film, along with veteran actors Butterfly McQueen and Stepin Fetchit, only a year before her death at the age of 81. The film does not deal with the popular Christian hymn (with words by John Newton) but is a play on Mabley’s character, who happens to be named Grace. It has been released on home video.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stan Lathan
Actors: Butterfly McQueen, Dolph Sweet, Gary Bolling, George Miles, James Karen, Moms Mabley, Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Slappy White, Stepin Fetchit