double pneumonia on November 27, 1932, in Los Angeles at the age of 36. Her husband continued as a popular leading man and "heavy" in numerous race films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and died in 1960. Their daughter Edeve Thompson converted to Catholicism as a teenager. She later entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana, where she became known as Sister Francesca Thompson, O.S.F., and became an academic, teaching at both Marian University in Indiana and Fordham University in New York City. Filmography The Homesteader (1919) Within Our Gates (1920) The Brute (1920) The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921) Deceit (1923) Birthright (1924) The Devil's Disciple (1926) The Conjure Woman (1926) The Spider's Web (1926) The Framing of the Shrew (1928) Melancholy Dame (1928) Oft in the Silly Night (1928) The Lady Fare (1929) Brown Gravy (1929) The Widow's Bite (1929) Georgia Rose (1930) The Good Sport (1931) uncredited Ladies of the Big House (1931) Blonde Venus (1932) Theater Rang Tang (1927) Further reading Bowser, Pearl. Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, Bloomington, Indiana.: Indiana University Press, 2001, pp. 19–33 Cripps, Thomas. Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 324–25. References External links Evelyn Preer- Our First Lady of the Silver Screen 1896 births 1932 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Mississippi African-American actresses American blues singers American film actresses American silent film actresses American stage actresses Blackface minstrel performers Musicians from Vicksburg, Mississippi Vaudeville performers Deaths from pneumonia in California 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers 20th-century African-American women singers