+Lance Fallin (The Singu'Lancity) They were called in those days "soundies." I remember my early youth was spent watching the Mills Bros. and others through this medium. Frankly, I got more from Dandridge through her soundies than I did from her ill fated Hollywood career. Funny, that as I matured I saw that Hollywood didn't know what to do with Dandridge. And Lena Horne, for that matter.
+Jay Young My Foster Father was a WW2 Veteran and was at the Battle of the Bulge. Anyway he loved the Mills Brothers and Andrews Sisters. I keep hearing "the white cliffs of Dover" in my head too but I can't remember who sang that.
Lance Fallin Now if you aren't after my heart. I'm looking at my CD as I read you. The lady, like Jo Stafford, was one of the voices of WWII, Dame Vera Lynn! Thank you for the memory. My eyes mist a bit from this memory.
All I can say is WOW, so many outstanding black entertainers back then, May God Bless them all, for the pleasure they still bring to us, as most have probably past away buy now. Thanks to everyone who is posting these wonder film clips. Another UTUBE page for the favorites.
This woman was breathtakingly beautiful I love old Hollywood! I can’t watch stuff like this with everybody because they don’t understand I’m just so intrigued how life was way before I was even thought of!!!
Wish the white peoples felt like that at the time! Issue was , they didn’t know what to do with her ! She was too pretty to be mammy ! And making her anything besides a jezebel would mean she would have to act along white men ! They don’t want that ! She deserved so much more! 😢❤
Your reply is that of a True FAN of Dorothy Dandridge, Thank You! I agree! Dorothy Dandridge worked in Hollywood during the 1940s, 50s, 60s a Very Hard Road! I'm Proud of Her accomplishments! Ann Dandridge POWERFUL PEOPLE and FRIENDS
Hello Dorothy fans/American peoples/Gentle readers-I noticed there are a lot of comments about Marilyn getting more fame than Dorothy. Well at the end of last year I fell in love and continue to admire Dorothy Dandridge. She was very talented and I made a t-shirt with her on it. I tell everyone about her. And I'm a White New Zealander. I thought it might make you and her proud to know her name is a little more known than you thought. Have a lovely day/night you're all amazing. :)
I'd seen her films, of course, but I had no idea what I live wire she was. Seeing her at her most explosive, reminds me a little of the time I saw Jimi Hendrix play in a small room. Made the hair stand up on my arms. Great stuff. Thank you.
This is sublime; so spirited & passionate. Suffice it to say, it is from 1941 making the late, great Miss Daindridge 19 years old. What is amazing is that she had such panache & aura & star quality at an age when many people are still students. Halle perfectly captured her sensuality, if not her innocence; I would love to see Rihanna play her on stage, as she is youthful & sensual, hence she could exude the required innocence. This number should have featured in her biography. Thank you.
DOROTHY AND MARILYN WERE FRIENDS BUT DOROTHY WAS UPSET THAT HER STAR WASN'T RISING BECAUSE OF RACISM. NOT TAKING ANYTHING FROM MARILYN, BUT DOROTHY WAS SO TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL IT HURT.
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe did a similar thing just like this but hers actually got looked at and respected rasicim back then was crazy she pretty much was marilyn before marilyn ever was big i don't know why i don't see Dorthy on tea shirts and picture frames instead
marilyn was a sex symbol and a socialite...i know she gained her notoriety, initially, from acting but let's be real, she wasn't an exceptional actress and her singing was bland. dorothy had real charisma, great singer, great dancer, great actress, and she just happened to be extremely beautiful on top of all that. as for marilyn stealing a dorothy bit and getting more attention for it, well...that's what us white people do. we steal shit. lol. anyway, if we're comparing marilyn to dorothy, in my opinion, it's dorothy by a million miles in all aspects.
channel gliza Ooh I feel like clarifying a couple things in your comments. Dorothy and Marilyn were actually comrades and shouldn't be positioned as adversaries - they came up together in the hollywood game and their positions as sex symbols are a large part of ended their lives too soon. The wear and tear on the psyche. Marilyn Monroe was a BRILLIANT actor and comedienne, truly a great, it gets lost in the sauce for the sex appeal because that's how patriarchy will do a girl. She was also a civil rights activist in her own way championing opportunities for people she knew rightfully deserved them. Both these ladies were ravaged by the system! Let's honor them both!
BrownGirls Burlesque a lot of this is subjective and it's probably not fair to look back and judge the lives or credentials of people who lived and died prior to me even being born-fair enough...but i'm just giving my opinion. I don't have a vendetta against Marilyn nor do I usually compare her and Dorothy but I am enamored with Dorothy in both beauty and presence and I think she makes a greater impression than Marilyn does. however, as I stated earlier, this is subjective. just my opinion.
Damn good stuff! And this in 1941! Sooooooo much better than what they do 75 years later. This Dorothy Dandridge definitively should replace the statue of liberty.
Nice to hear this music which was performed before my own time. Dorothy Dandridge was not only a good Singer she was a beautiful gal and could dance very well. Nice to hear and to watch!
On ne connait pas Dorothy ici en France mais je suis certaine qu'elle aurait pu faire une magnifique carrière comme l'a fait Joséphine Baker et tant d'autres afros-américains à Paris. C'est vraiment déchirant que la ségrégation ait provoquée autant de souffrances et de drames chez ces artistes de grand talent écrasés par le poids des mentalités. Elle n'était pas heureuse car non reconnue comme elle aurait dû l'être et comme elle l'aurait été si elle avait été blanche. Je trouve cela vraiment très triste qu'elle soit morte si jeune sans avoir pu vivre l'évolution qui allait suivre. Le film de Martha Coolidge (1999), et Halle Berry qui interprète son rôle, lui rendent un bel hommage. Merci à elles.
Dandridge was phenomenal in this clip, I agree they would have died before letting a white actress perform in the costume Dorothy wore, but hey its all a part of our history, the good the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the pain and glory, all makes for a wonderful story.
Yeah, that why Janet went for the role in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Halle of course got the role, but Janet payed tribute to Dorothy in her video for "Twenty Foreplay"
I miss Dot. She' s another caught in a social vice not of her making. It's interesting that I never knew until later in her career that Dandridge was so strong of voice!
+JudgeJulieLit Oops! My bad indeed! How embarrassing. I have a habit of typing too fast, and you've pointed out a frequent result. Thank you, Judge...!
+JudgeJulieLit Just got your reply (4:02 PM, 01/08/16) and thought I'd watch Dot on this birthday of mine. I do miss her and am so glad that I got to see her in person as she left a fashionable Chinese restaurant early one evening in Beverly Hills long ago and passed me on her way out with her then husband, Jack Denison. My apologies if I've told you this before, but I also caught a glimpse of June Eckstine, wife of crooner Billy C, strolling down Beverly Drive. Both Eckstine's wives, June and Carol, were exceedingly fashionable women in a Town & Country Way.
I wouldn't take this to seriously. You can see the expressions on ther face to tell that its all "toung in cheek" and that she is in on the joke. Plus look how cute she is.
@rankingtrevor your senses are on target. That's all they did back in that day and if you let it slip, it is sometimes still done today and when one recognizes it, people think you're crazy. I agree with you.... : D
People are just as smart today as yesterday. Do you know how smart you have to be to be able come up with all the technology we have? We're cloning meat. We have phones that do 20 different things. And for our singers. They are talented. Do you know how much work is involved to be able to pick a beat and mix it? Do you now how long it is to use computer programs to make techno. David Guetta is amazing. I think people discredit artist that use technology when they never edit sound themselves.
Soundies were shown via vending machine players... often in bars. So they did NOT have to meet the production code, hence the more interesting costumes.
The problem is that people don't realize that history repeats itself. We all add our twist to it however its the same thing. You put a naive girl on screen. She is winning she is making money and her family too, so they don't see nothing wrong with whats going on.... The majority watch TV or the children watches TV, which is a form of mind control. and they have another group of people going the direction played out for them. This is very sexy... she jiggling all over the place and she was beautiful. Even today people would be like WOW. Beyonce and Nikki are good looking females for today. I guess face wise you can say. They are shapely, however in fifteen, twenty years someone pretty, pretty coming up and pushing those females to the side... Its called life.
+Icy Cool You "stole" (lol!!!) my words exactly. Indeed, I just let this "pretty lady entertain me." Besides, I remember the days of the soundies. You should watch the Mills Bros. singing "South of the Border" in a soundie. Thanks a ton, alter ego!
i don't mean in entertainment, but the way they lived there lives carried themselves they were not starved for attention like the women are now, side note entertainment it also required talent and uniqueness not what we have for the 21st century
Dorothy never do that shit if the directors didn't pay her and direct her to perform that way. look they performing if you go to Africa(jungle) you going to be eaten and the woman they will hypnotize you with the sexy exotic bodies. that not funny and the actors probably hated doing that for a paycheck. inspiration might of come from Josephine baker but she was in France at that time. so only ppl in showbiz would have thought of this idea to jig in the jungle.
I think people want to just look at Ke$ha, and Nicki Minaj and say "oh we are not as talented as we were before" But everyone don't even credit John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, R Kelly, Usher, Ciara, V Bozman, Brandy, Alicia Keys, Lupe Fiasco. You can hate on them for being "so sexed up" but they are talented. And people don't even know hip hop originated from mixing beats from older music anyway. Kelly Rowland is doing the same thing Josephine Baker was doing, celebrating Black sexuality.
+Ebany Renee Yeah, that's similar to the appearance of Caribbean Geoffrey Holder in a movie whose name escapes me at the present. I think it was a James Bond movie.
to each its own, but women did carry themselves way more conservative in those days and that is a wonderful thing, and far as blacks doing things to get attention or prove something says a lot in itself the way they where treated back than and far as talented it did require more to be noticed vs what we have now everybody can be some form of an entertainer hinch youtube where anybody with a video is a star which proves my point
SADLY YOU ARE RIGHT. AFRICAN AMERICANS LIKE HER DID WHAT IT TOOK TO RISE ABOVE IT. THEIR INNER STRENGTH IS A TESTAMENT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT NO MATTER WHAT THE RACE.
+henochparks This short was made for black audiences by black producers. White Hollywood at that time would have never shown a black woman in a sexual light no matter how light she was. They knew the South would have had a fit. Unfortunately, this is the Black film industry of the time indulging in its own stereotypes of the continent of Africa.
Jay Young I don't understand what you are asking. However Hollywood did treat the South as its own audience separate from the rest of the United States whose sensibilities had to be catered to. And it wasn't just race - depictions of religion and decency laws also played a part. This was a practice all the way up until the late 60s.
Naw people always say that. Back in the 90s the old folks was saying the 70s was better and so on. everyone wanted to be famous since the 18th century to so on. Especially Blacks in the 20-40s. They were not seen as people and wanted to show everyone that they had just as much talent and brains to be successful as the Whites. That's why Josephine got naked on stage and danced. She wanted to be seen and heard. she wanted people to know she exist. Folks R as talented today as they were yesterday
+AeroDynamic Indeed, she was, like a little girl playing grown up, what with that cute pout to her face. I miss her dearly and was lucky enough to have bumped into her as I was waiting for a take out order in the fashionable Ah Fong restaurant in Beverly Hills. As she passed by me, she stopped briefly to primp in the mirror on leaving the bistro with her then husband, Jack Denison. I was lucky enough, too, to have seen June Eckstein, wife of the singer, strolling down Beverly Boulevard. Hope I'm not boring you, but I worked a Christmas sale at J. W. Robinson's in Beverly Hills in the early 70s and was pleasantly surprised to see wealthy woman of color being "coiffed" there, something a gay businessman and friend of mine told me was not possible in Portland Oregon, where things were pretty much still black and white. What was interesting about that Robinson experience was that women of color were a "fit" for the Beverly Hills scene on equal terms with their white counterparts, class, style of dress, manner. For example, I could see from afar that Ouida Williams, wife of Judge David Williams, was a "fit." Very stylish lady as was the mother of Natalie Cole, socialite Maria Hawkins Cole, now deceased. I could write a book. But leave you hoping I didn't bore you! Bye now!
Reminds me of Geoffrey Holder, the towering Trinidadian actor best known to film audiences as the villainous top-hatted Voodoo henchman Baron Samedi in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.
Dont know what all the crap is about this awesome video, why dont you all just shut up and watch it. Theres absolutely nothing wrong about it ..in any way shape or form.
i don't get it. What is "classy"? Josephine Baker lived in the 20s and would perform totally nude. Is that classy? I don't get what's wrong with exploring sexuality and celebrating it. Many old art from the famous renaissance artist had pictures of nude people. Is that classy? Like a naked body wasn't sexual back then? And in 20s there was a porno called Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure. Many jazz songs were about drugs & sex. Marilyn Monroe was a sex icon. so how are they more classy?
You're wrong in your assumption as to what I'm not.Being confident N 1s own self N abilities are protection from hollow N spineless words ment to do harm. These film clips where taken from movies,aimed at Black audiences,thay had black directors N Jewish producers N writers,made to pull the "Negro" $ N2 the theater N take the $ from Black movie makers,just like N baseball,2 much talent to ignore. To interview some 1 on how this type of work affected the ppl of that time would be interesting.
Actually the women were not conservative at all they just lived in a conservative society. When the war hit women had to get jobs and that was not traditional. It was not normal for a woman to work and it was not normal for a woman to dance on stage and be famous. Those were men jobs. And after the war women liked working so they started the woman's right movement which broke tradition. They started wearing pants which was a no back then. 20s black artist moved to France so they could be famous
I don't know why, but I like these old tunes/flicks
+Lance Fallin (The Singu'Lancity) They were called in those days "soundies." I remember my early youth was spent watching the Mills Bros. and others through this medium. Frankly, I got more from Dandridge through her soundies than I did from her ill fated Hollywood career. Funny, that as I matured I saw that Hollywood didn't know what to do with Dandridge. And Lena Horne, for that matter.
+Jay Young My Foster Father was a WW2 Veteran and was at the Battle of the Bulge. Anyway he loved the Mills Brothers and Andrews Sisters. I keep hearing "the white cliffs of Dover" in my head too but I can't remember who sang that.
Lance Fallin Now if you aren't after my heart. I'm looking at my CD as I read you. The lady, like Jo Stafford, was one of the voices of WWII, Dame Vera Lynn!
Thank you for the memory. My eyes mist a bit from this memory.
Man, Dandridge really channeled Josephine Baker for this one!
Old Hollywood is awesome.
Rip Dorothy Dandridge 🕊️🕯️💎
All I can say is WOW, so many outstanding black entertainers back then, May God Bless them all, for the pleasure they still bring to us, as most have probably past away buy now. Thanks to everyone who is posting these wonder film clips. Another UTUBE page for the favorites.
This reminds me of Josephine Baker's Act bank in her time. Both before Dorthy Dandridge or Marilyn Menroe!
"Whites" never did any before Africans i mean nothing
Dorothy was performing as a small kid so Josephine was not before her time.
This woman was breathtakingly beautiful I love old Hollywood! I can’t watch stuff like this with everybody because they don’t understand I’m just so intrigued how life was way before I was even thought of!!!
Dorothy's talent and Beauty easily make you forget the racism. If only in the moment
Maurice Watkins Exactly 💔
Wish the white peoples felt like that at the time! Issue was , they didn’t know what to do with her ! She was too pretty to be mammy ! And making her anything besides a jezebel would mean she would have to act along white men ! They don’t want that ! She deserved so much more! 😢❤
Man she had it all talent wise and a smoking hot body.
Now I know where the Eddie Murphy movie "Coming To America" got that idea for the wedding ceremony dance scene.
Your reply is that of a True FAN of Dorothy Dandridge, Thank You! I agree!
Dorothy Dandridge worked in Hollywood during the 1940s, 50s, 60s a Very Hard Road! I'm Proud of Her accomplishments!
Ann Dandridge POWERFUL PEOPLE and FRIENDS
Hello Dorothy fans/American peoples/Gentle readers-I noticed there are a lot of comments about Marilyn getting more fame than Dorothy. Well at the end of last year I fell in love and continue to admire Dorothy Dandridge. She was very talented and I made a t-shirt with her on it. I tell everyone about her. And I'm a White New Zealander. I thought it might make you and her proud to know her name is a little more known than you thought. Have a lovely day/night you're all amazing. :)
Show Reels Aw that is so sweet!! It doesn't really matter they both died a sad and lonely death. The same way!! 😖 I love them both!!
You still are mostly likely racist
Wow never saw such a beautiful woman in that era on screen
she is very beautiful.... cant nobody do the jig like Dorthy
I'd seen her films, of course, but I had no idea what I live wire she was. Seeing her at her most explosive, reminds me a little of the time I saw Jimi Hendrix play in a small room. Made the hair stand up on my arms. Great stuff. Thank you.
Josephine Baker's Banana Dance & Feather Dance
This is sublime; so spirited & passionate. Suffice it to say, it is from 1941 making the late, great Miss Daindridge 19 years old. What is amazing is that she had such panache & aura & star quality at an age when many people are still students. Halle perfectly captured her sensuality, if not her innocence; I would love to see Rihanna play her on stage, as she is youthful & sensual, hence she could exude the required innocence. This number should have featured in her biography. Thank you.
Wow she was only about 19 or so. What a knockout!
DOROTHY AND MARILYN WERE FRIENDS BUT DOROTHY WAS UPSET THAT HER STAR WASN'T RISING BECAUSE OF RACISM. NOT TAKING ANYTHING FROM MARILYN, BUT DOROTHY WAS SO TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL IT HURT.
She was amazing!
Miss Dorothy...
Wowza...
You just be such a cutie...
Wowza
Wowza
Wowza
Be still my heart...
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe did a similar thing just like this but hers actually got looked at and respected rasicim back then was crazy she pretty much was marilyn before marilyn ever was big i don't know why i don't see Dorthy on tea shirts and picture frames instead
marilyn was a sex symbol and a socialite...i know she gained her notoriety, initially, from acting but let's be real, she wasn't an exceptional actress and her singing was bland. dorothy had real charisma, great singer, great dancer, great actress, and she just happened to be extremely beautiful on top of all that. as for marilyn stealing a dorothy bit and getting more attention for it, well...that's what us white people do. we steal shit. lol. anyway, if we're comparing marilyn to dorothy, in my opinion, it's dorothy by a million miles in all aspects.
So true black women idolize Marilyn not realizing Marilyn idolized Dorothy ( on the low of course)
channel gliza Ooh I feel like clarifying a couple things in your comments. Dorothy and Marilyn were actually comrades and shouldn't be positioned as adversaries - they came up together in the hollywood game and their positions as sex symbols are a large part of ended their lives too soon. The wear and tear on the psyche. Marilyn Monroe was a BRILLIANT actor and comedienne, truly a great, it gets lost in the sauce for the sex appeal because that's how patriarchy will do a girl. She was also a civil rights activist in her own way championing opportunities for people she knew rightfully deserved them.
Both these ladies were ravaged by the system! Let's honor them both!
I know you didn't Erin. I just felt like Channel Gliza was seeing a conflict where there was actually a friendship.
BrownGirls Burlesque a lot of this is subjective and it's probably not fair to look back and judge the lives or credentials of people who lived and died prior to me even being born-fair enough...but i'm just giving my opinion. I don't have a vendetta against Marilyn nor do I usually compare her and Dorothy but I am enamored with Dorothy in both beauty and presence and I think she makes a greater impression than Marilyn does. however, as I stated earlier, this is subjective. just my opinion.
Damn good stuff! And this in 1941! Sooooooo much better than what they do 75 years later. This Dorothy Dandridge definitively should replace the statue of liberty.
FOR 1942, They sure are killin it!!!! Go head with ya'll bad self😂☺😍💜❤💙
A forties beauty!
Nice to hear this music which was performed before my own time. Dorothy Dandridge was not only a good Singer she was a beautiful gal and could dance very well. Nice to hear and to watch!
(GAL) huh....didnt think ppl still call women that word...well your kind of ppl...
Woman! She was a lady!
On ne connait pas Dorothy ici en France mais je suis certaine qu'elle aurait pu faire une magnifique carrière comme l'a fait Joséphine Baker et tant d'autres afros-américains à Paris.
C'est vraiment déchirant que la ségrégation ait provoquée autant de souffrances et de drames chez ces artistes de grand talent écrasés par le poids des mentalités.
Elle n'était pas heureuse car non reconnue comme elle aurait dû l'être et comme elle l'aurait été si elle avait été blanche.
Je trouve cela vraiment très triste qu'elle soit morte si jeune sans avoir pu vivre l'évolution qui allait suivre.
Le film de Martha Coolidge (1999), et Halle Berry qui interprète son rôle, lui rendent un bel hommage.
Merci à elles.
+Enay ram D'accord!
Great dance. Love to support your channel my friend. Amazing.
Dandridge was phenomenal in this clip, I agree they would have died before letting a white actress perform in the costume Dorothy wore, but hey its all a part of our history, the good the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the pain and glory, all makes for a wonderful story.
she is soooo cute!!!!!
Talented! Beautiful! And propably no make up,so that makes D.D. a natural beauty.
Excuse me while i wipe the sweat from my brow... ooh wee those hips dont lie
its something when you can tell a strong difference in the way women carried themselves back than and the women now
And now we see what inspired those outfits for the scene in Coming to America.
Yeah, that why Janet went for the role in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Halle of course got the role, but Janet payed tribute to Dorothy in her video for "Twenty Foreplay"
AWESOME VIDEO thanks 4 sharing
So beautiful -3
I miss Dot. She' s another caught in a social vice not of her making. It's interesting that I never knew until later in her career that Dandridge was so strong of voice!
+Jay Young Spelled "vise" the clamp, grip; "vice" is the opposite of virtue.
+JudgeJulieLit Oops! My bad indeed! How embarrassing. I have a habit of typing too fast, and you've pointed out a frequent result. Thank you, Judge...!
+Jay Young Yw ... and no apologies due for fast typing, a virtue.
+JudgeJulieLit Just got your reply (4:02 PM, 01/08/16) and thought I'd watch Dot on this birthday of mine. I do miss her and am so glad that I got to see her in person as she left a fashionable Chinese restaurant early one evening in Beverly Hills long ago and passed me on her way out with her then husband, Jack Denison. My apologies if I've told you this before, but I also caught a glimpse of June Eckstine, wife of crooner Billy C, strolling down Beverly Drive. Both Eckstine's wives, June and Carol, were exceedingly fashionable women in a Town & Country Way.
+JudgeJulieLit What was your reaction to the untimely death of Natalie Cole?
I wouldn't take this to seriously. You can see the expressions on ther face to tell that its all "toung in cheek" and that she is in on the joke. Plus look how cute she is.
Maybe I'm just unaware, but I'm surprised she wasn't more famous.
Dorothy was VERY FAMOUS!
Dorothy beauty is unmatched
OH MY MY GIRL DORTHY WAS SOOO CUTE
My favorite lyric in this "..Any place your old face might be looking, .you may see a missionary cooking."
I bet
How about "grab a chick that's slick and holla "BINGO!" (works for me...) ^..^
Such wonderful talent.
she has the cutest smile.
she look really good like that... i believe this was censored in the 40´s, but she is beautiful.... so sad she died so young...
love love love xxx
She looks like a 15 yr old. She was from a performing family. Started them young. ...Don't work, don't eat. So, she HAD to be damn good!
What a living doll!!!!!
@rankingtrevor your senses are on target. That's all they did back in that day and if you let it slip, it is sometimes still done today and when one recognizes it, people think you're crazy. I agree with you.... : D
So sad she died so you, what a beauty and talent
they new how to boogie in those days ?
Preach my sista ! These folks need to know !
Wooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!
She played Bess in "Porgy and Bess". Great voice.
wow did they raid the costumes from 1933's king kong! Wrong on so many level but she's amazing!
Huh, I could swear the guy who pops out in the end was Spike Lee
People are just as smart today as yesterday. Do you know how smart you have to be to be able come up with all the technology we have? We're cloning meat. We have phones that do 20 different things. And for our singers. They are talented. Do you know how much work is involved to be able to pick a beat and mix it? Do you now how long it is to use computer programs to make techno. David Guetta is amazing. I think people discredit artist that use technology when they never edit sound themselves.
❤
Black people used to be called "jigs" back n the day
Is that Doctor Clayton emerging from the kettle at the end?
Good Morning Everyone🌞
Nice.
so true
A jig is a dance.
tried 6 times to enter reply, assume host refutes studied polite reply
I think Beyonce ripped some of those moves. And in the end there's Zeke Elliot in the pot!
Justin Cooper I was thinking the same thing!!
@@Inkaa1tarot great minds!
A jig is a dance English, Bach wrote a few spelt gigue.
Soundies were shown via vending machine players... often in bars. So they did NOT have to meet the production code, hence the more interesting costumes.
The problem is that people don't realize that history repeats itself. We all add our twist to it however its the same thing. You put a naive girl on screen. She is winning she is making money and her family too, so they don't see nothing wrong with whats going on.... The majority watch TV or the children watches TV, which is a form of mind control. and they have another group of people going the direction played out for them.
This is very sexy... she jiggling all over the place and she was beautiful. Even today people would be like WOW. Beyonce and Nikki are good looking females for today. I guess face wise you can say. They are shapely, however in fifteen, twenty years someone pretty, pretty coming up and pushing those females to the side... Its called life.
I agree, James!
I forget all the BS politics when I watch this and just enjoy letting a very pretty lady entertain me.
+Icy Cool You "stole" (lol!!!) my words exactly. Indeed, I just let this "pretty lady entertain me." Besides, I remember the days of the soundies. You should watch the Mills Bros. singing "South of the Border" in a soundie. Thanks a ton, alter ego!
I READ THIS THEN I SAY THANK GOD IM 100% HUMAN AND DONT HAVE NEANDERTHAL DNA LIKE "WHITES"
i don't mean in entertainment, but the way they lived there lives carried themselves they were not starved for attention like the women are now, side note entertainment it also required talent and uniqueness not what we have for the 21st century
@Hauraunah I thought the same thing. ***whew***.
Dorothy taking inspiration from Josephine Baker
Dorothy never do that shit if the directors didn't pay her and direct her to perform that way. look they performing if you go to Africa(jungle) you going to be eaten and the woman they will hypnotize you with the sexy exotic bodies. that not funny and the actors probably hated doing that for a paycheck. inspiration might of come from Josephine baker but she was in France at that time. so only ppl in showbiz would have thought of this idea to jig in the jungle.
francesca francesca, im honored by your comment.
saul jonz Thank you, I'm honoured that you're honoured. :)
I think people want to just look at Ke$ha, and Nicki Minaj and say "oh we are not as talented as we were before" But everyone don't even credit John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, R Kelly, Usher, Ciara, V Bozman, Brandy, Alicia Keys, Lupe Fiasco. You can hate on them for being "so sexed up" but they are talented. And people don't even know hip hop originated from mixing beats from older music anyway. Kelly Rowland is doing the same thing Josephine Baker was doing, celebrating Black sexuality.
i love when he comes out the pot!
+Ebany Renee Yeah, that's similar to the appearance of Caribbean Geoffrey Holder in a movie whose name escapes me at the present. I think it was a James Bond movie.
to each its own, but women did carry themselves way more conservative in those days and that is a wonderful thing, and far as blacks doing things to get attention or prove something says a lot in itself the way they where treated back than and far as talented it did require more to be noticed vs what we have now everybody can be some form of an entertainer hinch youtube where anybody with a video is a star which proves my point
that is some racist sh*t
SADLY YOU ARE RIGHT.
AFRICAN AMERICANS LIKE HER DID WHAT IT TOOK TO RISE ABOVE IT.
THEIR INNER STRENGTH IS A TESTAMENT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT NO MATTER WHAT THE RACE.
+henochparks
This short was made for black audiences by black producers. White Hollywood at that time would have never shown a black woman in a sexual light no matter how light she was. They knew the South would have had a fit.
Unfortunately, this is the Black film industry of the time indulging in its own stereotypes of the continent of Africa.
+newguy90 How did "Brokeback Mountain" fare in "the South"?
Jay Young
I don't understand what you are asking. However Hollywood did treat the South as its own audience separate from the rest of the United States whose sensibilities had to be catered to. And it wasn't just race - depictions of religion and decency laws also played a part. This was a practice all the way up until the late 60s.
newguy90 I'm amazed that you didn't "understand what [I] was asking," especially when you go on to say "And it wasn't just race..." ??????????
She looks like Janet Jackson
The "Jig" is ostensibly a lively dance (Irish Jig), but the subtext is "Jig" is yet another one of the many slang terms for black Africans
@rankingtrevor but she looked good doing it!
Naw people always say that. Back in the 90s the old folks was saying the 70s was better and so on. everyone wanted to be famous since the 18th century to so on. Especially Blacks in the 20-40s. They were not seen as people and wanted to show everyone that they had just as much talent and brains to be successful as the Whites. That's why Josephine got naked on stage and danced. She wanted to be seen and heard. she wanted people to know she exist. Folks R as talented today as they were yesterday
well I guess she got josephine baker to thank for that dance number, but it was still a classic
she's sweet!!
+AeroDynamic Indeed, she was, like a little girl playing grown up, what with that cute pout to her face. I miss her dearly and was lucky enough to have bumped into her as I was waiting for a take out order in the fashionable Ah Fong restaurant in Beverly Hills. As she passed by me, she stopped briefly to primp in the mirror on leaving the bistro with her then husband, Jack Denison. I was lucky enough, too, to have seen June Eckstein, wife of the singer, strolling down Beverly Boulevard. Hope I'm not boring you, but I worked a Christmas sale at J. W. Robinson's in Beverly Hills in the early 70s and was pleasantly surprised to see wealthy woman of color being "coiffed" there, something a gay businessman and friend of mine told me was not possible in Portland Oregon, where things were pretty much still black and white. What was interesting about that Robinson experience was that women of color were a "fit" for the Beverly Hills scene on equal terms with their white counterparts, class, style of dress, manner. For example, I could see from afar that Ouida Williams, wife of Judge David Williams, was a "fit." Very stylish lady as was the mother of Natalie Cole, socialite Maria Hawkins Cole, now deceased. I could write a book. But leave you hoping I didn't bore you! Bye now!
Tom tom beater 2 from the left looks like a Lilly skin...
The top hat at :22 bothers me.
Reminds me of Geoffrey Holder, the towering Trinidadian actor best known to film audiences as the villainous top-hatted Voodoo henchman Baron Samedi in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.
For a minute I thought that was Gene Krupa on drums.
Dont know what all the crap is about this awesome video, why dont you all just shut up
and watch it. Theres absolutely nothing wrong about it ..in any way shape or form.
i don't get it. What is "classy"? Josephine Baker lived in the 20s and would perform totally nude. Is that classy? I don't get what's wrong with exploring sexuality and celebrating it. Many old art from the famous renaissance artist had pictures of nude people. Is that classy? Like a naked body wasn't sexual back then? And in 20s there was a porno called Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure. Many jazz songs were about drugs & sex. Marilyn Monroe was a sex icon. so how are they more classy?
I didn't "fault" anyone. I just said it was hard to watch.
Halle Who !!!
@SueSnell
The title of this song makes me uncomfortable. But then, the whole thing is uncomfortable, for modern viewers.
no it's not whites are racist
Maybe JJ looks like her?
@slideguy100
beauty to forget the racism
You're wrong in your assumption as to what I'm not.Being confident N 1s own self N abilities are protection from hollow N spineless words ment to do harm.
These film clips where taken from movies,aimed at Black audiences,thay had black directors N Jewish producers N writers,made to pull the "Negro" $ N2 the theater N take the $ from Black movie makers,just like N baseball,2 much talent to ignore.
To interview some 1 on how this type of work affected the ppl of that time would be interesting.
wow.... not a high waist bikini bottom? pretty skanky to wear that in the 40s lol love it though!
You're obviously talking about yourself,x3.
I love Dorothy Dandridge but this is just wrong.This number is about exploiting the black community,nothing elese.But Dorothy nails her part.
Actually the women were not conservative at all they just lived in a conservative society. When the war hit women had to get jobs and that was not traditional. It was not normal for a woman to work and it was not normal for a woman to dance on stage and be famous. Those were men jobs. And after the war women liked working so they started the woman's right movement which broke tradition. They started wearing pants which was a no back then. 20s black artist moved to France so they could be famous