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.
Hazel Scott (far left) with her then husband, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chat with Ella Fitzgerald at the opening night party for the club Bop City in New York City in April 1949. Photo: Martha Holmes//Time Life Pictures.
The great singer and pianist Hazel Scott with her then husband, New York congressman and minister Adam Clayton Powell Jr. at the opening night of the club Bop City in New York City in April 1949. Photo: Martha Holmes/Time Life Pictures.
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.
Hazel Scott playing TWO grand pianos in the 1943 Mae West film, “The Heat is On.”
Hazel Scott
“Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she’s a black woman, she’s in deep trouble”. Hazel Scott.
Hazel Scott (with Paul Robeson in the background) performing at a dinner in Brooklyn in honor of Hugh Mulzac, the first African American captain in the U.S. Navy to command an integrated crew during World War II.
Hazel Scott with flowers and espadrilles.
Hazel Scott and Lena Horne enjoying a drink, circa 1940s or 1950s.
This photo is via LIFE magazine and the caption says this is “circa 1934” but that is wrong. Lena Horne was an unknown 17-year-old chorus girl in Harlem in 1934.
Hazel Scott circa 1949. Photo via LIFE magazine.
