How Tyler Perry offered a 2-word theme and songwriter Ruth B. brought tears to his eyes
In the Jim Crow South of the 1930s and '40s, in poor, rural Georgia, forbidden love struggles up through the briars. The teens, Bayou and Leanne, find they can be together only in the dead of night, signaling each other with paper planes. The message received, they head for their…
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