One of the last surviving "singing cowboy" actors, Jeffries was of Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian-Irish descent. He appeared with Dorothy Dandridge, Big Joe Turner and Ivie Anderson in Duke Ellington's all-black revue "Jump for Joy", which was staged at the Mayan Theater in 1941.
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