Brown Paper Bag

The year is 1942, and Archie Glass Is trying to get into Hollywood. His chance comes as he is offered a job: Find a young white movie star before the press reports that she is missing and he will have a shot at his Hollywood dream. Thus begins a journey into a Los Angeles you have never seen before, the actors who play the maids, the busboys, the background actors in jungle films, all spring into the foreground in this dramatic noir about a man willing to do anything to make his dream come true. Archie searches the back alley of Hollywood and discovers more lies than truth. Ultimately he finds the woman he is looking for and the dark reality of being a black man in tinsel town.

Cast

Rasheed Stephens

Archie Glass

Tiara Parker

Sandra

Michael Anthony Jr.

Donny

Caesar James

Wingate

Antonio D. Charity

Blackie Philips

Vivia E. Armstrong

Nadine

Anthony M. Bertram

Earl

Suzan Brittan

Script Supervisor

Preston Bruner

Nathan

Amanda Holquin

Mona