Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

  • Documentary
1/1/2008
60
PG

I'll tell it to the hot, I'll tell it to the cold. I'll tell it to the young, I'll tell it to the old. I don't want no laughin', I don't want no cryin', and most of all, no signifyin'. This is Petey Greene's Washington.

Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.

Director:
Loren Mendell
Writer:
Loren Mendell

      Cast

      • Don Cheadle
        Narrator (voice)
      • Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr.
        self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage)
      • Robert Hooks
        self - actor and producer
      • Chuck Brown
        self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene
      • Marion Barry
        self - former mayor of Washington, DC
      • Howard Stern
        self
      • Ralph Greene Sr.
        self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)
      • Maggie Floyd
        self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)
      • Dewey Hughes
        self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager
      • Roach Brown
        self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary
      • Frank Smith, Jr.
        self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.
      • Clarence Greene
        self - Petey Greene's brother
      • Ernie Barnes
        self - Artiste
      • Virginia Ali
        self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl
      • Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis
        self - President, Southeastern University
      • Sandra Butler
        self - retired tv executive

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