Theresa Harris graced the screen with her magnetic presence and most times stole scenes from the top stars of the day every chance she got and made a lot of dull films worthwhile. This picture is from the Flame of New Orleans.
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Theresa Harris graced the screen with her magnetic presence and most times stole scenes from the top stars of the day every chance she got and made a lot of dull films worthwhile. This picture is from the Flame of New Orleans.
Theresa Harris and Barbara Stanwyck in BABY FACE 1933. I watched Baby Face and Theresa’s character was more than just the maid. She was a confident to Barbara’s character.
Jean Idelle was one of the first black burlesque dancers. Most known for her fan dance performances in which she adorned herself in white ostrich feathers, Idelle raked in a whopping $12,000 a year ($104,000 present day).
Butterfly McQueen
Nina Mae McKinney was an actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood. She was dubbed "The Black Garbo" in Europe because of her striking beauty.
Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life (1959)
Louise Beavers and Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life 1934.
Nina Simone and her daughter, Lisa Celeste, in an ad for Crest in 1964.
Dorothy Dandridge with her sister Vivian Dandridge.
Lena Horne and Joe Louis hanging out together.
Aida Overton Walker..February 14, 1880 – October 11, 1914
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...R.I.P.
Vaudeville Performer, Actress, Singer, Dancer, Choreographer
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...R.I.P.
Vaudeville Performer, Actress, Singer, Dancer, Choreographer
I asked myself, what kind of name is "Stepin Fetchit"?
Stepin Fetchit
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Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.[3] His highest profile was during the 1930s in films and on stage, when his persona of Stepin Fetchit was billed as the "Laziest Man in the World".
Perry parlayed the Fetchit persona into a successful film career, becoming the first black actor to earn $1 million. He was also the first black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film.[4][5]
Perry's film career slowed after 1939 and nearly stopped altogether after 1953. Around that time, Black Americans began to see his Stepin Fetchit persona as an embarrassing and harmful anachronism, echoing negative stereotypes. However, the Stepin Fetchit character has undergone a re-evaluation by some scholars in recent times, who view him as an embodiment of the trickster archetype.[6]
Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn
"Imitation of Life" remake could be on the way.Louise Beavers and Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life 1934.
Beyoncé and Zendaya are reportedly in talks to remake Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 “Imitation of Life,”
“Imitation of Life,” which is based on the best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, is about a white woman who takes in an African-American widow and her daughter, Sarah Jane, whose fair skin allows her to pass as white.
Beyoncé is reportedly going to produce the remake.
Eartha Kitt is one of my favorite actresses. I admire her strength and wisdom. She was a talented actress and I love all her movies.
Eartha Kitt shared in her book "Confessions of a Sex Kitten" regarding her encounter with Harry:
"During the time I was at the Village Vanguard I met Harry Belafonte. I thought he was very handsome and someone I would have liked to get to know better, but at the time our relationship remained quite formal. He seemed to busy catching little white flies, as he proved to me later in Philadelphia where, getting up from my bed, he said, 'I don't want you to take this seriously. No black woman can do anything for me.' There went my heart right into my feet." Eartha Kitt
"During the time I was at the Village Vanguard I met Harry Belafonte. I thought he was very handsome and someone I would have liked to get to know better, but at the time our relationship remained quite formal. He seemed to busy catching little white flies, as he proved to me later in Philadelphia where, getting up from my bed, he said, 'I don't want you to take this seriously. No black woman can do anything for me.' There went my heart right into my feet." Eartha Kitt
Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s songs".
Dolores Brown was a Jazz and jump blues singer, who first recorded as a vocalist with Erskine Hawkins's big band in 1939-1940, made two titles under her own name for Beacon in 1942, two more for Sterling in 1947, and appeared as a vocalist with Big John Greer's orchestra on one title in 1951.
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. She was a friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.
Adele Addison is an American lyric soprano who was a figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert. Her performances spanned a wide array of literature from the Baroque period to contemporary compositions. She is best remembered today as the singing voice for Bess (played by Dorothy Dandridge) in the 1959 movie, Porgy and Bess.
Diahann Carroll
Vera Francis is an African-American actress, known for Devil Goddess (1955), I'll Give My Life (1960) and The Ten Commandments (1956).
Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. #blackhistorymonth
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Happy Birthday Harry Belafonte!
Delores LaVern Baker was a R&B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were "Tweedle Dee", "Jim Dandy", and "I Cried a Tear".
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode was an athlete and actor. Strode was a college track and football star at UCLA, one of the first Blacks to integrate the NFL, a professional wrestler, a Golden Globe nominated actor, and a WWII veteran. He attended UCLA and played alongside Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington, both who broke the color barriers of baseball and football in the 1940s. Strode joined UCLA’s Alpha Phi Alpha chapter. He is probably best remembered for his brief Golden Globe-nominated role in Spartacus (1960) as the Ethiopian gladiator Draba, in which he fights Kirk Douglas to the death.
Maxine Ella Brown is an American soul and R&B singer.
Hope that assists are ok. I fell in love with Marpessa Dawn when I saw Black Orpheus. Not quite Hollywood, but certainly on the international movie star list.
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