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The Notorious Elinor Lee is a 1940 race film directed, written, and co-produced by the African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. It was shot at Biograph Studios in The Bronx, New York. The film’s production was covered by Time magazine, which described filmmaker Micheaux as a thickset, mild-mannered, chocolate-colored producer. The film had its premiere in Harlem on January 15, 1940 and is considered Micheaux’s penultimate film production. Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (January 2, 1884 - March 25, 1951) was an African-American author, film director and independent producer.