Film
Amazing Grace
1974 · 99 min · ★ 6.7 · Dir. Stan Lathan
Who's Comin' to Put an End to Dirty Tricks, Crooked Politicians and Lyin' Mayors! Who? America's Most Glamorous, Sexiest Female Superstar!
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.
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Starring
Slappy White
Forthwith Wilson
Moms Mabley
Grace
Stepin Fetchit
Cousin Lincoln
James Karen
Annenberg
Gary Bolling
William
Moses Gunn
Welton J Waters
Rosalind Cash
Creola Waters
Butterfly McQueen
Clarine
George Miles
Blaney
Dolph Sweet
Mayer Scott
George Lee Miles
Blaney