Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene poster

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.

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

Release: 2008-01-01

Runtime: 60 min

Rating: 8.4 / 10

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

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Marion Barry

self - former mayor of Washington, DC

self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)

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Maggie Floyd

self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)

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Dewey Hughes

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

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Roach Brown

self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary

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Frank Smith, Jr.

self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.

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Clarence Greene

self - Petey Greene's brother

self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl

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Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis

self - President, Southeastern University

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Sandra Butler

self - retired tv executive

Martin Luther King Jr.

self - archival footage

Sugar Ray Leonard

self - boxing legend