Hazel Scott chatting with Bill Cosby and James Moody (Yes, Moody’s Mood for Love) in 1968 at a Los Angeles bar called Hong Kong. This photo was included in a March 1968 story about Ms. Scott in Ebony magazine.
Marvin Gaye, amazingly enough, would have turned 73 today.
Marvin Gaye, amazingly enough, would have turned 73 today.
Dorothy Dandridge and actor Curd Jürgens (her co-star in 1958’s Tamango) enjoy hors d’oeuvres at a party thrown by producer Mike Todd (then-husband of Elizabeth Taylor) for his film “Around the World in Eighty Days” during the Cannes Film Festival in May 1957. Photo by Red Grandy, who has a great story about crashing the party to take this and other pictures.
Eartha Kitt, photographed by Gordon Parks, with her two cats.
Josephine Baker, just minding her own business, August 29, 1933.
Photo via Corbis.
Sarah Vaughan shot by Charles “Teenie” Harris with legendary Pittsburgh Courier reporter Frank Bolden (far left) and friends in an undated photo. I’m guessing late 1940s.
Stunning shot of Nina Simone by Pittsburgh photography icon Charles “Teenie” Harris, circa 1965.
Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder on their wedding day, June 26, 1955, with theater legend Lucille Lortel, who hosted the wedding on her estate in Westport, Connecticut. Photo by Carl Van Vechten.
Whitney Houston with Arthur Mitchell, Cicely Tyson and her mother, Cissy Houston on December 9, 1988. Photo courtesy of Robert Garland of the Dance Theater of Harlem.
Look at Eartha’s dress.
(Source: wwwbeautifullensecom, via billiesbluesday)
