Cordie King, went on to open a modeling agency and charm school called Cordie King’s Castle which produced graduates such as journalist and author Janet Langhart Cohen. Left: A model in 1954, photo appeared in the November 1965 issue of EBONY Right: Models Cordie King and Alberta Culbreath model afternoon fashions for Ebony Fashion Fair in a 1958 issue of EBONY. Photo: Friedman-Abeles/New York Public Library. James, a Washington, D.C.-born graduate of The Juilliard School, is best known for portraying Cindy Lou in the 1954 film version of “Carmen Jones” with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Wonderful,” which also starred the great Chita Rivera. and Olga James in a scene from the 1956 Broadway musical, “Mr. The sisters were preachers daughters who topped the R&B and pop charts and were nominated for over a dozen Grammy Awards in the pop, R&B and country categories.
Pictured above: The Pointer Sisters, June, Ruth, Bonnie and Anita, wearing vintage styles from the forties in 1973.
Let’s see what’s in store for us in this beautiful hardback coffee table book, which you can pre-order here. With its stunning photographs and insightful biographies, this book is a hugely important addition to Black history archives.” “The book presents historic photographs of famous actors, dancers, writers and entertainers who worked in the 20th-century entertainment business, but who rarely appeared in the same publications as their white counterparts. And now, she’s putting it all into print. The internet spawns another exciting book, in this case, a Tumblr dedicated entirely to Vintage Black Glamour.įrom Josephine Baker getting a pedicure to an anonymous snapshot of a style icon that never was, author Nichelle Gainer has been unearthing a treasure trove of iconic images from rarely accessed photographic archives ever since she began her Tumblr.
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