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Marques Haynes, Harlem Globetrotters

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Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Edward Clark for LIFE Magazine, 1951.

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The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) with Dorothy Dandridge

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1920′s Beach beauties. From Lisa Laird, FB.

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BOOKMARK THIS POST! Listen to all episodes of the Kindaris Pictures Podcast’s second season! In this season, we talked about everything and everyone from Eartha Kitt to Oscar Micheaux, and the host even shared personal thoughts on recent Gone with the Wind controversy. Go catch up!

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CALLING CLASSIC MOVIE LOVERS! Would you like to hang out and watch classic movies with new friends online? Take this quick survey to share your personal preferences for a monthly Classic Movie Watch Party, hosted by Kindaris Pictures!

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The Kindaris Pictures Podcast returns in September--and it’s returning in a big, new way!

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Students on campus at Howard University. (Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt) 

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Hedy Lamarr

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Der Scutt, Der Scutt Apartment, Living Room, New York, New York, 1970

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My newest illustration, Belinda Bloodflower. 

Can find the print and wares at my Redbubble shop  or Society6 Shop

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[18] Classic Actors of Color → June Richmond

June Richmonds acting career was the by-product of her singing career as most her roles were to showcase her vocal talents. She started singing with well known bands such as Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra, Cab Calloway, and Andy Kirk before venturing onto a successful career as a soloist. Like many black performers at the time she found more success in Europe including in France, Germany, and Sweden among others.

Y’all should do yourself a favor and listen to her sing “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” [X]. It will give you chills.

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Evelyn Preer in Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates (1920).

Within Our Gates was one of two of Micheaux’s responses to the D.W. Griffith film, The Birth of a Nation (1915). Evelyn Preer played the film’s protagonist, ‘Sylvia Landry’, a young woman eager to raise money to save a struggling school.

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Actress Theresa Harris as she appeared in the 1948 film, “The Velvet Touch,” which starred Rosalind Russell. Ms. Harris was the inspiration behind Lynn Nottage’s play, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” which starred Sanaa Lathan.  From Donald Bogle’s Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood: “Harris - who was both outspoken and highly intelligent - didn’t mince words about the plight of colored actresses. She told Fay M. Jackson, of the California Eagle in August 1937: “I never felt the chance to rise above the role of maid in Hollywood movies. My color was against me. The fact that I was not ‘hot’ stamped me as either an uppity ‘Negress’ or relegated me to the eternal role of stooge or servant. I can sing but so can hundreds of other girls. My ambitions are to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me.” Photo via A Certain Cinema.

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Theresa Harris in Thunderbolt (1929).

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Theresa Randle and Isaiah Washington reenacting Carmen Jones, Girl 6 (1996)