Old Girlfriend — Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Character Profile

About Old Girlfriend

A former romantic partner of Sweetback who refuses to help him hide from the police but agrees to remove his handcuffs in exchange for sexual favors.

Character Facts

Played by

Rhetta Hughes

Appears in

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Old Girlfriend — Romantic Former Lover — Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles)

  A past romantic connection that has degraded into a transactional encounter driven by survival needs.

• Old Girlfriend — Social Acquaintance — Beetle (Simon Chuckster)

  A distant social connection within the same marginalized urban ecosystem.

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More characters from Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

• Beetle (Simon Chuckster)
• Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles)
• The Young Sweetback (Mario Van Peebles)
• Biker (John Amos)
• Commissioner (John Dullaghan)
• Actor (Curt Matson)
• (as West Gale) (Wesley Gale)