BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023
Clips from/Images of:
• #TheNicholasBrothers and #DorothyDandridge in SUN VALLEY SERENADE (1941)
• #TheCookies (#singinggroup) • #JamesBrown and #TheFamousFlames at #THEAPOLLO
• #CabCalloway in JITTERBUG PARTY (1935)
• #TheBerryBrothers in PANAMA HATTIE (1942)
• #HazelScott and #LenaHorne in I DOOD IT (1943)
• #BlancheCalloway (#composer/#bandleader/#singer)
• #AvonLong (#actor/#singer)
• #BuckAndBubbles in VARSITY SHOW (1937)
• Black Drill Team from SKIRTS AHOY! (1952)
• #LadyBirdCleveland (#painter; with her paintings)
• Cab Calloway in MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1931)
• #EdnaMaeHarris in director #OscarMicheaux's LYING LIPS (1939)
• #LittleRichard in DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK (1956)
• The Nicholas Brothers in DOWN ARGENTINE WAY (1940)
• #SidneyPoitier in BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955)
• #HaddaBrooks (#pianist)
• #TheNicholasBrothers and #DorothyDandridge in SUN VALLEY SERENADE (1941)
• #TheCookies (#singinggroup) • #JamesBrown and #TheFamousFlames at #THEAPOLLO
• #CabCalloway in JITTERBUG PARTY (1935)
• #TheBerryBrothers in PANAMA HATTIE (1942)
• #HazelScott and #LenaHorne in I DOOD IT (1943)
• #BlancheCalloway (#composer/#bandleader/#singer)
• #AvonLong (#actor/#singer)
• #BuckAndBubbles in VARSITY SHOW (1937)
• Black Drill Team from SKIRTS AHOY! (1952)
• #LadyBirdCleveland (#painter; with her paintings)
• Cab Calloway in MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1931)
• #EdnaMaeHarris in director #OscarMicheaux's LYING LIPS (1939)
• #LittleRichard in DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK (1956)
• The Nicholas Brothers in DOWN ARGENTINE WAY (1940)
• #SidneyPoitier in BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955)
• #HaddaBrooks (#pianist)
Black History Month 2024
Clips from/Images of:
• #DonaDrake (billed as #RitaRio) as "Mademoiselle Fifi" performing ''The Lady Dances'' in #STRIKEMEPINK (1936)
• #LenaHorne's #BRAZILIANBOOGIE from #BROADWAYRHYTHM (1944)
• #HazelScott in #THENIGHTAFFAIR (1958)
“I've been brash all my life, and it's gotten me into a lot of trouble. But at the same time, speaking out has sustained me and given meaning to my life.” —Hazel Scott 📷: c. 1948 Portrait session, New York City, New York 📸: James Kriegsmann
• #TheresaHarris in THUNDERBOLT (1929)
"... I can sing but so can hundreds of other girls. My ambitions are to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me." (Full quote: "I never felt the chance to rise above the role of maid in Hollywood movies. My color was against me. The fact that I was not 'hot' stamped me as either an uppity 'Negress' or relegated me to the eternal role of stooge or servant. I can sing but so can hundreds of other girls. My ambitions are to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me.")
• #NinaMaeMcKinney in #THEBLACKNETWORK (1936)
“It took no great effort to bring it out. She just had it. Whatever you wanted, whatever you visualized, she could do it.” —King Vidor, on Nina Mae McKinney
• #GertieBrown and #SaintSuttlein in SOMETHING GOOD-NEGRO KISS (1898)
•My grand-aunt #BettyeLightsy (creator of the first #BlackModelAgency in #1950s #Chicago)
• #PaulRobeson in #THEEMPERORJONES (1933)
• Pioneer Black #Model #HelenWilliams and #LaJeuneHundley (winner of the "Ms. Festival" title in Cannes), at the Orly airport and on the beach in Paris, 1960.
• #LadyBirdCleveland (#painter; with her paintings)
• #FrancineEverette in #GERTIEFROMHARLEMUSA (1946)
• #NickStewart (#actor, most known as #Lightnin' in the #television version of #AMOSNANDY)
“I was Lightnin’ by day, but I put on serious black theater by night.”
• #NatKingCole
"Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark," said Nat, after unsuccessfully getting any major sponsors for his TV program, though #NBC paid for the show with hopes getting major sponsors. Nat pulled the plug in 1957 ... "For 13 months I was the Jackie Robinson of television."
• #DianaSands (#actress)
"I refuse to be stereotyped. Look at me. Never mind my color. Please look at me!" —Diana Sands
• #SammyDavisJr in #ROBINANDTHE7HOODS (1964)
• #DorothyDandridge and #HarryBelafonte in #CARMENJONES (1954)
• #MarieBryant (#dancer #performer #singer) in #JAMMINTHEBLUES (1944)
• #HaroldNicholas in #THEEMPERORJONES (1933) and #HaroldNicholas and #FayardNicholas of #TheNicholasBrothers performing "Lucky Numbers" in THE BLACK NETWORK
• #CabCalloway in CAB CALLOWAY'S HI-DE-HO (1934)
• #TinaTurner with #IkeTurner and #TheIkettes
• #LeslieUggams with #DeanMartin and performing "The Trolley Song" on #theedsullivanshow
• #SamCooke
• #DorothyDandridge in #THEDECKSRANRED (1958)
• #DonaDrake (billed as #RitaRio) as "Mademoiselle Fifi" performing ''The Lady Dances'' in #STRIKEMEPINK (1936)
• #LenaHorne's #BRAZILIANBOOGIE from #BROADWAYRHYTHM (1944)
• #HazelScott in #THENIGHTAFFAIR (1958)
“I've been brash all my life, and it's gotten me into a lot of trouble. But at the same time, speaking out has sustained me and given meaning to my life.” —Hazel Scott 📷: c. 1948 Portrait session, New York City, New York 📸: James Kriegsmann
• #TheresaHarris in THUNDERBOLT (1929)
"... I can sing but so can hundreds of other girls. My ambitions are to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me." (Full quote: "I never felt the chance to rise above the role of maid in Hollywood movies. My color was against me. The fact that I was not 'hot' stamped me as either an uppity 'Negress' or relegated me to the eternal role of stooge or servant. I can sing but so can hundreds of other girls. My ambitions are to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me.")
• #NinaMaeMcKinney in #THEBLACKNETWORK (1936)
“It took no great effort to bring it out. She just had it. Whatever you wanted, whatever you visualized, she could do it.” —King Vidor, on Nina Mae McKinney
• #GertieBrown and #SaintSuttlein in SOMETHING GOOD-NEGRO KISS (1898)
•My grand-aunt #BettyeLightsy (creator of the first #BlackModelAgency in #1950s #Chicago)
• #PaulRobeson in #THEEMPERORJONES (1933)
• Pioneer Black #Model #HelenWilliams and #LaJeuneHundley (winner of the "Ms. Festival" title in Cannes), at the Orly airport and on the beach in Paris, 1960.
• #LadyBirdCleveland (#painter; with her paintings)
• #FrancineEverette in #GERTIEFROMHARLEMUSA (1946)
• #NickStewart (#actor, most known as #Lightnin' in the #television version of #AMOSNANDY)
“I was Lightnin’ by day, but I put on serious black theater by night.”
• #NatKingCole
"Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark," said Nat, after unsuccessfully getting any major sponsors for his TV program, though #NBC paid for the show with hopes getting major sponsors. Nat pulled the plug in 1957 ... "For 13 months I was the Jackie Robinson of television."
• #DianaSands (#actress)
"I refuse to be stereotyped. Look at me. Never mind my color. Please look at me!" —Diana Sands
• #SammyDavisJr in #ROBINANDTHE7HOODS (1964)
• #DorothyDandridge and #HarryBelafonte in #CARMENJONES (1954)
• #MarieBryant (#dancer #performer #singer) in #JAMMINTHEBLUES (1944)
• #HaroldNicholas in #THEEMPERORJONES (1933) and #HaroldNicholas and #FayardNicholas of #TheNicholasBrothers performing "Lucky Numbers" in THE BLACK NETWORK
• #CabCalloway in CAB CALLOWAY'S HI-DE-HO (1934)
• #TinaTurner with #IkeTurner and #TheIkettes
• #LeslieUggams with #DeanMartin and performing "The Trolley Song" on #theedsullivanshow
• #SamCooke
• #DorothyDandridge in #THEDECKSRANRED (1958)