Stay Golden

Happy Friday, my friends.

Sunday is The Oscars. Every year since 1980,
I have been watching The Academy Awards.
In honor of the Oscars, here is
an updated picture I did of The Golden Ladies
as I call them. The Ten African American
women who have nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Actress. Only Halle
of the Ten have won so far.

Here are the Ten Golden Ladies:
Dorothy Dandridge (1954) in Carmen Jones
Cicely Tyson and Diana Ross (1972) in Sounder and Lady Sing The Blues
Diahann Carroll (1974) in Claudine
Whoopi Goldberg (1985) in The Color Purple
Angela Bassett (1993) in What's Love Got To Do With It.
Halle Berry (2001) in Monster's Ball * Won Oscar Gold
Gabourey Sidibe (2009) in Precious
Viola Davis (2011) in The Help
Quvenzhané Wallis (2012) in Beasts of The Southern Wild.

Quvenzhané being the youngest Best Actress
nominee ever!

Enjoy Oscar Sunday, everyone.

Bright Road

This is one of the reasons I like TCM. I get to find gems
like this. Last week, I saw Bright Road (1953) starring
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.

It's spans a year in the life of a new teacher named Jane
played by Dorothy and her class of 4th graders. It's a really
sweet and heartwarming film. It's notable for a lot of reasons.
It's an almost all black cast with a positive and affirming
view of life; also, this is Harry Belafonte's film debut as
The Principal.

Bright Road comes a year before Carmen Jones which would
make Dorothy a star and earn her an Oscar nomination for
Best Actress; Bright Road also shows glimpses of the chemistry
that Dorothy and Harry would blaze in Carmen Jones.

If it comes on TCM again or you can get a copy of it,
please watch Bright Road. You will truly be delighted.

Here is the trailer. Enjoy.

Dorothy for a Friday

Yesterday, I saw a sweet film called "Bright Road"
starring Dorothy Dandridge. I'm going to talk it more
next week.

Here is the beautiful and talented Dorothy to
serenade you for the weekend. This is My heart belongs to Daddy.

Enjoy.