American Masters The Disappearance of Miss Scott (Season 39, Episode 1)
TV-14
TV Episode | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

The Disappearance of Miss Scott (Season 39, Episode 1)

TV-14

TV Episode | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott was the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality.

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45 cast members

Name	Known for
Hazel Scott Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Dood It (1943)
James Baldwin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
Count Basie Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pearl Harbor (2001)
Joey Bishop Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Joey Bishop Show (1961)
Ray Brown Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Just Cause (1995)
Mark Cantor Self Self See fewer	The Legend of Teddy Edwards (2001)
Stokely Carmichael Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Marcia Chatelain Self Self See fewer	Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union (2022)
Karen Chilton Self Self See fewer	Half Nelson (2006)
Angela Davis Self Self See fewer	Untitled Angela Davis Project
Michael Eric Dyson Self (as Revend Michael Eric Dyson) Self (as Revend Michael Eric Dyson) See fewer	Waist Deep (2006)
Duke Ellington Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Frances Faye Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Pretty Baby (1978)
Marcus Garvey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend (2011)
Farah Jasmine Griffin Self Self See fewer	Great Migrations: A People on the Move (2025)
Merv Griffin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Jeopardy! (1984)
Mickey Guyton Self Self See fewer	American Underdog (2021)
Billie Holiday Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Minority Report (2002)
Lena Horne Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Murray Horwitz Self Self See fewer	Search for Tomorrow (1951)
Ashley Kahn Self Self See fewer	Sample: Not for Sale (2012)
Tammy L. Kernodle Self (as Tammy Kernodle) Self (as Tammy Kernodle) See fewer	The Loving Story (2011)
Alicia Keys Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Martin Luther King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Freedom Writers (2007)
Dwayne Mack Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
William Marshall Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Blacula (1972)
Charles Mingus Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Jerry Maguire (1996)
Jason Moran Self Self See fewer	Selma (2014)
Monica O'Connell Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Adam Clayton Powell III Self Self See fewer	Keep the Faith, Baby (2002)
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Howard K. Smith (1962)
Sheryl Lee Ralph Hazel Scott (voice) Hazel Scott (voice) See fewer	Oliver & Company (1988)
Max Roach Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Shining Girls (2022)
Jackie Robinson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Loren Schoenberg Self Self See fewer	Jazz (2001)
Amanda Seales Self Self See fewer	My Brother and Me (1994)
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Self (as Gretchen Sorin) Self (as Gretchen Sorin) See fewer	Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America (2020)
Carol Stabile Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Ed Sullivan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Art Tatum Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Great Debaters (2007)
Tracie Thoms Self Self See fewer	Rent (2005)
Camille Thurman Self Self See fewer	Paris is in Harlem (2022)
Fats Waller Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Isabel Washington Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	St. Louis Blues (1929)
Lester Young Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	On the Road (2012)