The Conjure Woman (1926) is a race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film, which stars Evelyn Preer and Lawrence Chenault, is based on the 1899 short story collection by the American writer Charles W. Chesnutt.
No print of the film has been located and The Conjure Woman is presumed to be a lost film.
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“My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women. I
charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like
as much of this play as please you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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