Congratulations to Cicely Tyson on her first ever Tony nomination for The Trip to Bountiful! In this 1973 photo, she is trying on a dress in Paris. Ms. Tyson, a two-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, was nominated for her role in the current Broadway hit The Trip to Bountiful Broadway which also stars Vanessa Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Wopat and Condola Rashad - daughter of Phylicia Rashad and a two-time Tony nominee herself! Photo: Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match/Getty.
Cicely Tyson answers a reporter’s questions on the red carpet as she arrives at the #Oscars on March 27, 1973. Ms. Tyson was nominated in the Best Actress category for her role in the film, “Sounder”. She and Diana Ross made history that year as the first Black actresses nominated in the Best Actress category in the same year (Liza Minnelli won for her role in “Cabaret”). I am not sure if he was with Ms. Tyson that evening, but Dance Theater of Harlem founder Arthur Mitchell is to her right in this picture. Photo: Frank Diernhammer/Conde Nast Archives.
It is just before midnight, so I am just in time to wish Ms. Cicely Tyson a very happy 79th birthday. In this photo, she is in Central Park in New York City in 1973, just as her star was rising after what would be her Academy Award-nominated role in the film, “Sounder.” Photo: Bettman/Corbis.
Cicely Tyson and Carmen de Lavallade in a scene from the 1959 film “Odds Against Tomorrow.” I made this screen grab for those of you who did not get through the 9-minute clip in the posts on Robert Earl Jones and Harry Belafonte. :)
Cicely Tyson and Miles Davis in August 1968 attending the premiere of ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’ in New York City. Tyson and Davis were not a couple at the time - they actually married in 1981. Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage.
Cicely Tyson, James Baldwin, Arthur Mitchell (dancer and founder,Dance Theatre of Harlem) and Harry Belafonte attend the “To Be Young, Gifted And Black” gala on January 2, 1969 at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage.
Cicely Tyson in “A Man Called Adam,” 1966. Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra also starred in the film.
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Cicely Tyson and modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore disembarking from an airplane, probably in the early 1960s. Ms. Tyson, while doing a bit of modeling herself, trained models and actors at Ms. DeVore’s famous charm school. Photo via opheliadevore.com
Forgive the 3G shot, but I had to share Vintage Black Glamour icons Phylicia Rashad, Cicely Tyson & Valerie Simpson at b. michael’s Fall 2012 show last night.
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.
Happy 78th Birthday Cicely Tyson! Photo by Douglas Kirkland, January 1973.
Harry Belafonte, Carmen de Lavallade, Cicely Tyson and Robert Earl Jones (father of James Earl Jones) in the 1959 Belafonte-produced film noir, Odds Against Tomorrow. The most fascinating 9 minutes you’ll spend today.
