Hilda Simms and Lena Horne in the late 1940s. It drives me crazy that I have not been able to find a legitimate source/photographer behind this photo. It’s one thing to find it on a random website (like I did last year) but it’s another thing to share it and properly credit it for a wider audience. Sigh…
Hilda Simms, the pioneer Minnesota-born actress best known for her starring role in the first all-black production of Anna Lucasta on Broadway, in a glam shot circa 1947. You are not going to believe the awesome pictures I have found of her for the book! Photo: Denis De Marney/Getty Images.
I am a bit obsessed with this awesome picture. It’s Hilda Simms, Langston Hughes (bottom right) and actor Canada Lee (center in white shirt) at a party with other artists around 1944. I recognize the women on the left - but I am drawing a blank on their names so, if you know, please let me know in the comment section. Photo by George Karger/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
Hilda Simms really should have been more famous, but her film career was cut short after being blacklisted in the 1950s.
Quintessential Vintage Black Glamour: Lena Horne and Hilda Simms.
Thank you Benito.
Pioneering actress Hilda Simms in a 1964 Posner skin cream advertisement.
Hilda Simms, a popular actress best known for her starring role in the first all-black production of Anna Lucasta on Broadway in 1944, on the January 1954 issue of Hue.
