Mildred Boyd

Mildred Boyd (1908–1999) was an actress, a singer, and a dancer who was active in Hollywood from the 1920s through the 1950s.

[1][2] Like many Black actresses of her era, she was often cast as a maid or a nurse.

Boyd relocated to Los Angeles as a young adult, where she found work a chorus girl at Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, a popular Black nightclub in Culver City.

[3][4] Around the same time, she began appearing in Hollywood films, working regularly throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

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