Happy New Year Vintage Black Glamour Friends! Surely I don’t have to tell most of you that this is Lena Horne and Hazel Scott (circa 1940s - Metronome/Getty) but I will say that they were not toasting the new year in this picture. I suspect they were merely toasting their mutual fabulousness…
Thank you so much for such an awesome 2012 (57,000+ Facebook fans, 4,000+ Twitter followers, 132,000+ (!) Tumblr blog subscribers - I am so grateful for each and every one of you.
Josephine Baker relaxes with a cocktail in Venice after a hard day’s work in 1940. Photo: Getty Images.
Louis Armstrong celebrates his 50th Birthday with Tallulah Bankhead and Bill Langford on the terrace of Bankhead’s Manhattan apartment in August 1950. Photograph by Genevieve Naylor.
