Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (2008)

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.

Documentary

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

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  • Release Date: 2008-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Director: Loren Mendell

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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

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    self - archival footage

  • Sugar Ray Leonard

    self - boxing legend

  • James Brown

    self - sportscaster

  • Alfred Liggins, III

    self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One

  • Petra Greene

    self - daughter of Petey Greene (archival footage)

  • Ralph Waldo Greene, III

    self - Petey Greene's son (archive footage)

  • Sister Claudette Muhammad

    self - Chief of Protocol, Nation of Islam

  • Madeline Petty

    self - Deputy Director, DC Dept of Housing

  • Donna Brazile

    self - Mobilization Chairman, March on Washington

  • Dana Jones

    self - CEO, United Planning Organization

  • Midge Costanza

    self - Special Assistant to President Carter