Amanda Randolph

Amanda Randolph (September 2 1896 - August 24 1967) was an African American actress and singer. She was a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and was the older sister of actress Lillian Randolph. She began her career in black musical revues in the 1920s.

She worked in films from the 1930s to the 1960s, and was one of the first black women to become a comedy favorite on television. She briefly starred in her own daytime musical TV program, "Amanda", during the 1948 - 1949 season, and became a regular on the top early black TV show of the decade: "Amos 'n' Andy" as Sapphire's mother from 1951 to 1953. She was the star and titular character in "Beulah" during the final part of its last season in 1953. She also appeared in Sidney Poitier's 1950 drama "No Way Out". She also had a recurring role as Louise the maid on "The Danny Thomas Show".

Amanda's sister Lillian Randolph, another "Amos 'n' Andy" regular in the role of Madame Queen, was the voice of "Mammy Two-Shoes" in William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's "Tom and Jerry" cartoon short subjects for Metro Goldwyn Mayer during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Randolph died of a stroke in Duarte, California on August 24 1967 at the age of 70.

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