I brought these stats up at the other place but consider this: Not only has there only been six Black directors nominated for Best Director (all of them men), there’s never been a two-time nominee in that category.

"Sweet Lorraine. That's the way I always felt about her, and so I won't apologize for calling her that now. She understood it[...]I loved her, she was my sister and my comrade. Her going did not so much make me lonely as make me realize how lonely we were..." —James Baldwin

“Beneatha is me, eight years ago.” —Lorraine Hansberry, to Mike Wallace in 1960 📷: Writer/playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, in her 337 Bleecker Street New York City apartment where she wrote the first Broadway play by a Black American woman, A RAISIN IN THE SUN. 📸: David Attie April 1959

Grace Kelly on the film set with DIAL M FOR MURDER author Frederick Knott. Photograph by Pat Clark

"That's fairly accurate, I think, for a great number of us. Becoming a star wouldn't have bothered me, but what is a star? A star isn't anything. An actor acts. That's the important thing." Born Janet Cole in Detroit #OTD 1922 . . . Remembering #KimHunter!

As the incredibly underrated (Iimo), #KimHunter, was #BOTD "I felt that she was such a kid, a loving little sister, a lot like the women in my family: smart, funny, sexy, honest, down-to-earth. There is no pretension in Kim. 1/

A piece via The Flapper Dame's THE WONDERFUL GRACE KELLY BLOGATHON (thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/t...) I enjoyed highlighting Kelly's TV career in LIVE, FROM NEW YORK, IT'S GRACE KELLY!: boxofficepoisons.blogspot.com/2024/11/live... via BOX OFFICE POISONS: A Classic Movies Blog

"Although, I've played a wide variety of roles, I've never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It's a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality." —Grace Kelly #BOTD

"I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds...who was a kind[...]loving person[...]to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others." —Grace Kelly 📷: on set of Alfred Hitchcock's TO CATCH A THIEF (1955)

A little Kelly to Grace your day. ✨

Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYk...

"After midnight, she prowels the world's most expensive jungle." A NEW KIND OF LOVE 1963 Starring: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Director: Melville Shavelson Costume Designs by Edith Head

𝙹𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚎 𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚗 (𝟙𝟡𝟡𝟟) 𝚍𝚒𝚛. ℚ𝕦𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟 𝕋𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕠 . . . #ℂ𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕞𝕒 🎟 📽🎞 #𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚂𝚔𝚢

Also made a leather handbag . . . by hand. Literally.

Finally mounted this color-coded alias (custom-made wood print!) a couple of weeks ago, and . . . I'm quite proud.

5. ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ (P&P, 1946) “Where were you born? “Boston.” “Mass.?” “Yes.” “That’s a place to be born. History was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No. No, don’t answer that.” “I could love a man like you, Peter.” “I love you, June. You’re life, and I’m leaving you.”

Happy #VeteransDay. But make it Boogie. In The Andrews Sisters in BUCK PRIVATES (1941) style! 📯🇺🇲 🎶: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Celebrating my mom, "The Vet" (as she'd love to say), and all other Veterans! (Fun fact: My mom could still wear her original fatigue pants from when she was in the Army! 🪖) 🩷

As I'm vocal about my love for BATTLEGROUND (1949) being one of my favorite war films, dropping these classic film recommendations to incorporate in your #VeteransDay watchlist: THE STEEL HELMET 1951 HOME OF THE BRAVE 1949 PORK CHOP HILL 1959 SAHARA 1943 RED BALL EXPRESS 1952 ALL THE YOUNG MEN 1960

As I'm vocal about my love for BATTLEGROUND (1949) being one of my favorite war films, dropping these classic film recommendations to incorporate in your #VeteransDay watchlist: THE STEEL HELMET 1951 HOME OF THE BRAVE 1949 PORK CHOP HILL 1959 SAHARA 1943 RED BALL EXPRESS 1952 ALL THE YOUNG MEN 1960

Celebrating my mom, "The Vet" (as she'd love to say), and all other Veterans! (Fun fact: My mom could still wear her original fatigue pants from when she was in the Army! 🪖) 🩷

Happy #VeteransDay. But make it Boogie. In The Andrews Sisters in BUCK PRIVATES (1941) style! 📯🇺🇲 🎶: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

As I'm living for all the OutKast love that has overtaken my timeline . . . I repeat . . . all of this: Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006). The cast. The costumes. The music. 🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye

A little Gene Tierney to add some sparkle to Monday's shine. ✨

“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art." —Baldwin

Always rent free. 📷: James Baldwin and Doris Jean Castle 📸: Steve Schapiro 1963 New Orleans

Dorothy Dandridge performs her “Oh-Ah-Oh” number, as referenced in JET magazine (December 15, 1955 issue), during her opening night performance at The Riviera in Las Vegas, November 1955.

#Noirvember holds many flavors! Western noir Blanche Fury has quite a fancy-brutal use of POV during this ambush scene. We break it down further at shotzero.substack.com/p/blanche-fu..., but the effect is simply unmissable.

“We Negroes finally convinced the entertainment world not to stereotype us as just maids, porters and so on. But now too many producers are afraid to call us at all. Rather than do wrong, they do nothing.” —Dorothy Dandridge #BOTD 📷: Publicity portrait for CARMEN JONES (1954)

Evansville, Indiana's vintage COOK'S GOLDBLUME BEER advertisement featuring . . . #DorothyDandridge.

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary #OnThisDate 1914(-2000) ... Remembering: "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." You know, 👑. #HedyLamarr on her Birthday Anniversary!

Been back on my Nancy Kwan FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961) bun and bow (okay, clip) shift. ✨🎀✨ 🎶I enjoy being a girl🎶

"Dorothy Dandridge is a picture of loveliness[...]The gracious Dandridge stole the show at New York's[...]Academy Award ceremonies[...]She literally wowed cafe society in her debut last week[...]hailed as one of the most beautiful and talented women..." —Associated Press, 1955

November 9th. Aka: The day I crowd the timeline with . . . #DorothyDandridge 📸 by Vera Jackson (pioneer Black female photographer, "hired as a staff photographer for the California Eagle in 1945[...]capturing both the glamour of Black celebrities and[...]Civil Rights movement after World War II")

"The range between the two parts [BRIGHT ROAD and CARMEN JONES] suggests that she is one of the outstanding dramatic actresses of the screen." —Newsweek, about: Born Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Cleveland #OTD 1922 ... Remembering #DorothyDandridge on her Birthday Anniversary!

It's her day. ✨ Dorothy Dandridge was #BOTD

A collection of Classic Film Noir is currently available on @kanopy.com If BLANCHE FURY (1948) (or CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948)) are films that still haven't made their rounds through your film-watch journey, I highly recommend them. The Technicolor in BLANCHE FURY alone is gorgeous!

This. Is beautiful. Was walking along my merry way when the Sugar Plum Fairy caught my eye and led my attention to . . . 💖 🩰

Same, Jenna. Same.

Finally watched the Italian adaptation of the novel, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, by James M. Cain, over the summer after having it on my watchlist radar for years, director Luchino Visconti's OSSESSIONE (1943), starring Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti. Personally, enjoyed it. Highly recommend.

"The Wizard of Oz keeps coming back every year because it's such a beautiful film. I don't think any of us knew how lovely it was at first. But, after a while, we all began to feel it coming together—and knew we had something." —Margaret Hamilton (via THE MOVIE BUFF'S BOOK, 1975)

"I hope when you go [to research other cultures], you don’t just stop at the offices of the men in the cities, but that you go to the women in the country." —Etta Moten-Barnett, 1980 For other recommended reading, including her advocacy for women's rights: searchablemuseum.com/etta-moten-b...

I proudly included Ms. Etta in my "101: Classic Black Female Artists" piece—that has recently been nominated in the Best Classic Movie Series category for the CMBA Awards (my first nomination as a member!) 🔗: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo...

"...the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. The most incredible, amazing, voluptuous, dignified, and sensual actress to grace the Broadway stage in my lifetime - the incomparable Etta Moten Barnett." —Sidney Poitier to Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett for her 100th birthday, 2001 (see ALT)

“All I ever wanted to do was make people happy. And I wanted to show them that no matter what their dreams can come true.” —Etta Moten-Barnett (Photo credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)

Dubbed "the first Negro woman to play a dignified role in pictures," by the Black newspaper, THE PITTSBURGH COURIER (est. 1907), vocalist/actress/community leader and pioneer, Etta Moten-Barnett, would pass away in 2004 at the age of 102. 📸 Carl Van Vechten March 16, 1934

“[Etta Moten-Barnett] gave Black people an opportunity to look at themselves on a big screen as something beautiful when all that was there before spoke to our degradation. In her, we found another dimension to being black in our time[...]a true shining star.” —Harry Belafonte

As the incredible Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett was born this week, November 5, 1901, in Weimar, Texas. I am resharing a thread of mine to celebrate the woman and her talent. 📷: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 🧵 (7 post thread)

As the incredible Ms. Etta Moten-Barnett was born this week, November 5, 1901, in Weimar, Texas. I am resharing a thread of mine to celebrate the woman and her talent. 📷: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 🧵 (7 post thread)

"The Wizard of Oz keeps coming back every year because it's such a beautiful film. I don't think any of us knew how lovely it was at first. But, after a while, we all began to feel it coming together—and knew we had something." —Margaret Hamilton (via THE MOVIE BUFF'S BOOK, 1975)