Edna Mae Harris association with veteran performers. Harris was also an excellent swimmer in high school, and in 1928 she entered the New York Daily News' Swimming Meet and won a championship. Harris first real Hollywood break came when she landed a part in "The Green Pastures" (1936), portraying Zeba, starring with Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. Harris was a leading lady in "Spirit of Youth" (1938), the story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis. Harris also had leading roles in Oscar Micheaux films, "Lying Lips" (1939), and "The Notorious Elinor Lee" (1940). Her film credits also
Triumph of the Spirit Triumph of the Spirit Triumph of the Spirit is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay was inspired by true events. The majority of the film is set in the death camp at during the Holocaust and details how the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch was forced to fight other internees to the death for the SS guards' entertainment. Prior to "Triumph of the Spirit", no major feature film had ever been shot on location at Auschwitz. A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Salamo Arouch's passion is