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If this photo (above) looks familiar, that’s because if you are a regular reader it is. It’s marvelous still from the 1943 musical comedy romance distributed by United Artists, “Stage Door Canteen.” We just had to share it with you again. There they are — a svelte, smiling Ethel Waters standing at the microphone in […]
Talented black actresses confined for racial reasons to roles of maids, cooks or “mammies” in Hollywood movies of the 30s, 40s and 50s, invariably stood their ground in their limited cinematic circumstances, even upstaging on occasion their more celebrated white costars. Who can forget Hattie McDaniel in “Gone With […]