Hilda Simms, Broadway actress, dies at age 75
Jet, March 7, 1994
Actress Hilda Simms, who gained acclaim for her performance in the title role of Broadway's Anna Lucasta, died recently of pancreatic cancer in Buffalo, NY.
The 1944 American Negro Theater-produced play moved from Harlem to Broadway as the first mainstream drama with an all-Black cast that did not deal with racial issues.
She played a middle-class woman who became a prostitute, but later tried to regain respectability.
Miss Simms also appeared in films such as The Joe Louis Story in 1953 and The Black Widow in 1954.
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