Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

Documentary 2008 · 1h

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.

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

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20 people

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

M Marion Barry self - former mayor of Washington, DC

Howard Stern self

R Ralph Greene Sr. self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)

M Maggie Floyd self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)

D Dewey Hughes self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager

R Roach Brown self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary

F Frank Smith, Jr. self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.

C Clarence Greene self - Petey Greene's brother

E Ernie Barnes self - Artiste

V Virginia Ali self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl

D Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis self - President, Southeastern University

S Sandra Butler self - retired tv executive

Martin Luther King Jr. self - archival footage

Sugar Ray Leonard self - boxing legend

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

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