Talk:Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (disambiguation)

Film line
Regarding
 * * "Feets, don't fail me now", line of film dialogue

It is associated, accurately or not, with various black American actors:
 * Willie Best in the film The Ghost Breakers
 * Mantan Moreland in various Charlie Chan films
 * Stepin Fetchit
 * early Amos 'n' Andy actors

The most credible source i've turned up, and the most telling against any proposed resolution, is The Yale book of quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, page 537: Mantan Moreland I. Feets, don't fail me now!
 * Attributed in Wash. Post, 30 Sept. 1973. Often said to be a catchphrase uttered by Moreland in the Charlie Chan detective films, but no one has actually found the expression in any of those motion pictures. Moreland may have used it in his nightclub act.

--Jerzy•t 09:20, 11 July 2010 (UTC)