![]() ![]() ![]() Mostly, she had that ineffable something - magnetism, oomph - that electrified the screen, making two dimensions seem like three. She had huge eyes, a husky laugh, voluptuous curves. She sang and danced with verve, and the camera adored her. Plucked from obscurity, she shook up the screen in “Hallelujah!,” an all-Black Hollywood musical. In 1929, just as moving pictures were learning to talk, a vivacious teenager named Nina Mae McKinney helped make them sing.
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