Ex-Schoolteacher Set To Play in Sugar Hill
Zara Cully Brown was a school teacher in Jacksonville, Florida. She was an Elocutionist. Her training began in Worcester, MA and once she married James M. Brown, she took her skills with her to Florida where her sister Hannah Cully who married Elvin Brown “Unkie”, the brother of James Brown.
I remember my mother mentioning Aunt Zara getting a part in Sugar Hill. I was five years old at the time. I posted the letter on a previous post that Zara sent to my mother regarding the movie that she was contemplating about accepting. You can go to the link here>>>> A letter from Zara Cully Brown to My Mother Regarding: Sugar Hill
I remember my mother mentioning Aunt Zara getting a part in Sugar Hill. I was five years old at the time. I posted the letter on a previous post that Zara sent to my mother regarding the movie that she was contemplating about accepting. You can go to the link here>>>> A letter from Zara Cully Brown to My Mother Regarding: Sugar Hill
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| New York Amsterdam News October 20, 1973 Pg D6 |
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Ex-Schoolteacher Set To Play in Sugar Hill
“Sugar Hill,” a drama filled with voodoo and crime, is being filmed in Houston, Texas with Zara Cully playing the role of an aged voodoo priestess, Mama Maitress.
A former school teacher in Jacksonville, Fla., now a busy actress, Zara Cully, has played in “The Liberation of L.B. Jones,” “A Hall of Mirror,” “The Great White Hope,” and “Brother John.”
The Drama which is being directed by Paul Maslansky and produced by Elliot Schick is expected to be released by the American International in February, 1974.
The cast includes Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Richard Lawson And Betty Anne Rees.
