Wow! that just punched me between the eyes. ❤️ No lie, my Grandmother was a dead ringer for Dorothy. So much so, she used to get mobbed for autographs walkin' around Harlem back in her day. My auntees (her sisters) used to tease her about the couple fender benders she caused while window shoppin'. Granny took it all in stride but was nobody's fool either. Nightclubs around Harlem used to pay her to come sit at their VIP table or in their lounge (with her "beau" if she wanted to dance😉) and the clubs security wouldn't let anybody get within 10ft of her table "to sell it"😉 So by word of mouth people would say "Dottie Dandridge relaxes at such a such a club! Saw her with my own two eyes in there just dancin' with her beau havin' Friday night fun like us regular folk". Next thing you know, Thurs/Fri/Sat night at each club is packed in the hopes of seein' Dottie. To not get in trouble with the real Dotties PR people, when my Grandma was ready to go, she'd smile and sign a few autographs on the way out guarded by security. Seein' this just hit me hard & some kinda way❤️ my grandmother's been gone since the mid 80's. She made alot of money and had tons of fun for free with her sisters as Dottie dead ringer look alike. Get this, my Grandmother's real name is Dorothy. FrFr.🤗 Like she used to say " playin Dottie on the nightclub scene for 3 days a week I made more money than the gals at the western onion (union) made in 2mths which back then, for a black woman was sayin' & doin' somethin'. She'd say "I'm blessed with good looks but no better or greater than anyone else❤️ Sorry for being so long but I haven't thought of granny in years. This coming into my feed opened a floodgate within. Thank you for listening🤠😎👍🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️
Dorothy Dandridge beauty is astounding, She had a tragic life,and was friends with Marilyn Monroe who had a similar harrowing childhood, and they became fast friends till the end both gone too soon Dorothy with Harry Belafonte was fire Carmen Jones was a masterpiece There'll never be STARS like this again
This style of performing is called vaudeville. BOTH white and black performers did the big facial expressions and body movements/dancing. You had to be larger than life for the audience in the back, this is the style that they are performing in. Even now, on braodway the style of the performance is bigger and more pronounced that on TV or film.
Appreciate your explanation. Those who are bothered by the man's performance might benefit from reading your explanation. Why don't you re-post it anew?
@@sageywavey, while I agree that too many of my fellow African descendants in this country try to find every reason to cry victim, I can't agree with your "complete and total failure" description of our race. It discounts the tens of thousands of Blacks who are successful, God-fearing, and non-vulgar in speech and behavior.
@@tom11zz884 What are talking about, that's exactly what I'm doing.....giving the woman her shine. And stop playing dumb, you know why that comparison is out there. But I don't even care, no one tops, or shines, Dorothy, NO ONE!
Simply brilliant. All style and real talent. No auto tune or computer touch ups. There was no where to hide back then. This is why this is solid gold 80 years later.
They did , but the sad fact is many modern viewers will still try to label these clips as exploiting black performers, it's those very people who diminish the position that people like Dorothy Dandridge hold in the history of music. And she has to be one of the most gorgeous women that's ever walked the Earth.
We grew up watching movies like this on afternoon or late Saturday night tv. We would sit together (seven of us at home then) on the floor with pillows. It rocked.
Decades ago, I was a plumbing apprentice and I worked with a laborer, named Paco. He had come over the border from Mexico, as a teenager, in the late 1940's, in the Los Angeles area. He got himself a job and got married. He came home from work one day and discovered his wife threw his Zoot suit away. He loved that Zoot suit and was very sad to see it go, and was telling me about it 30 years after the fact. Wearing a Zoot suit in L.A. in the 1940's was like wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. It often led to scuffles in the street.
@@caroldesarnoNeNe45 a combination of two factors: a) it was a veeery fabric heavy (and wasteful) garment in the heavily rationed war times and b) it was closely associated with the Mexican-American immigrant population. So a mix of racism with a real concern in mind.
@@caroldesarnoNeNe45 LA was the scene of the Zoot Suit Riots between sailors and young fashionably-dressed Latino males (1943). A lot of effort has been expended to invest this event with significance, but it wasn't the first time that a bunch of servicemen on leave got into brawls with their civilian counterparts to blow off steam. After all, they've been trained to fight and as you point out this was wartime. Soldiers and sailors constantly get into dustups with each other when they're on leave out of service rivalry, for instance. And the resentment that servicemen hold toward non-serving military age civilians (the cadence count variations on "Jody's got your girl and gone," is not the only expression) is the stuff of legend. As part of the war effort, many items were rationed. Women's skirts were shortened, for instance. A zoot suit, a celebration of fabric, might have seemed out of step with the mission from a military perspective, if not a decadent exercise in self-indulgence by those avoiding service that amounted to a thumb of the nose toward their uniformed contemporaries.
"Reet" is jive or hepcat talk for "right," "sharp," "outstanding," or "way out there." A reet pleat is a pleat that is carefully ironed and starched so that it physically stands out without wire appurtenances. (MC Hammer pants definitely do NOT have a reet pleat.) In the race film "Reet, Petite, and Gone," "reet" is referring to gals who are "lookers" (highly attractive). ("Gone" here is the same as "out of this world.") Harlem talk was highly inventive, but African-American talk in general has always been highly inventive. I taught in an all black school for seven years during the 70s. My students used "Mickey D's" way before the corporation used it! Did you know that a "solid dollar" is a dollar bill and not a dollar made up of pocket change? (My school was at 69th and Wentworth in Chicago.)
for a quick moment in the mid to late 70's during the happy and wild disco era in NYC the Zoot suit made a come back and I'm proud that I was 1' of the few who found them in the thrift shop's of the lower east side and got to wear and dance in them
I’m from the lower east side, I know exactly what your talking about. The 70s had a return to that earlier 40’s style. I had the cuffs in the pants just right before I stepped outside. You had to come correct!!!
There are a lot of acting beauties, but Dorothy Dandridge had more charm than most actresses put together. I can’t think of more cuteness mixed with charm in other actresses. You can say Meg Ryan or Ginger Rogers when they were young but when you combine it with Dorothy’s dancing, it’s incomparable. She matured, too, she became more beautiful and could act drama and sing operatically ❤later as well.
Watching this clip makes me miss my mom & how she would school me on the classics. I remember her telling me that she had a "Carmen" skirt made, too. ♥️R. I. P. Mom 1939-2014♥️
I love me some DOROTHY! Before MUSIC videos there were SOUNDIES! I have this video along with Dorothy's other Soundies in my D.D. Collection. Mike, you gonna make me pull out my VHS Tapes! LOL!
Thank you for sharing the love of these great classics..young black youth need to be educated on our positive people of color from days gone by an their clean songs an dance moves compared to those of today😎
I rented, and wore, a zoot suit for my second marriage...the missus rarely gives me grief, but when she does I am often prone to point out she married a man wearing a zoot suit...she can never argue that, lol...
My FAVORITE and MOST BEAUTIFUL NATURAL BLACK WOMEN of ALL time are: Dorothy Dandridge, Lola Falana, Diahann Carroll and Pam Grier. You CAN'T get better than that!!! Holla!!!!
Beautifil, yes. But natural? With all the weave and plastic surgery that TODAY'S black female actresses flaunt? Name one who wears their natural hair - no weave or chemicals - ALL THE TIME.
To my modern eyes, the outfits they start with look MUCH sharper than the ones they're yearning for, haha. Still an amazing soundie, love it. Thank you so much.
Dorothy Dandridge was so beautiful!!!
I so agree with u
@@Blossom48055 reason i clicked didn't even know
The beauty in the thumbnail forced my thumb to click the video:)
@@babyjesuslovesme1219 yep thanks for reminding me
Dime peace.
Dorothy was unarguably one of the most beautiful women of her time
Yes so true
of all time. I will always love her.
In the whole world.
She was hotter than Georgia asphalt. Finer than baby powder.
Not gonna argue
Wow! that just punched me between the eyes. ❤️ No lie, my Grandmother was a dead ringer for Dorothy. So much so, she used to get mobbed for autographs walkin' around Harlem back in her day. My auntees (her sisters) used to tease her about the couple fender benders she caused while window shoppin'. Granny took it all in stride but was nobody's fool either. Nightclubs around Harlem used to pay her to come sit at their VIP table or in their lounge (with her "beau" if she wanted to dance😉) and the clubs security wouldn't let anybody get within 10ft of her table "to sell it"😉 So by word of mouth people would say "Dottie Dandridge relaxes at such a such a club! Saw her with my own two eyes in there just dancin' with her beau havin' Friday night fun like us regular folk". Next thing you know, Thurs/Fri/Sat night at each club is packed in the hopes of seein' Dottie. To not get in trouble with the real Dotties PR people, when my Grandma was ready to go, she'd smile and sign a few autographs on the way out guarded by security. Seein' this just hit me hard & some kinda way❤️ my grandmother's been gone since the mid 80's. She made alot of money and had tons of fun for free with her sisters as Dottie dead ringer look alike. Get this, my Grandmother's real name is Dorothy. FrFr.🤗 Like she used to say " playin Dottie on the nightclub scene for 3 days a week I made more money than the gals at the western onion (union) made in 2mths which back then, for a black woman was sayin' & doin' somethin'. She'd say "I'm blessed with good looks but no better or greater than anyone else❤️ Sorry for being so long but I haven't thought of granny in years. This coming into my feed opened a floodgate within. Thank you for listening🤠😎👍🏾❤️🙏🏾❤️
Brother that is too cool!
Wonderful story! ❤
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So glad you shared this wonderful story about your grandmother. It made my day and I'm sure that's true for everybody who reads this!! Thank you.
Family stories are just the BEST stuff- loved to hear yours…thank you!!💕
She is so adorable 😍
Totally.
Was adorable not is she's long gone now 😢
I would have let her kiss me on our first date.
But today's Black women continue to get uglier and uglier
Absolutely! Adorable, I mean.
She was a triple threat, singing, dancing, acting, and gorgeous, too.
So true! Back in the day, you had to be well-rounded to stay current. Watching this makes me miss my mom & how she would school me on the classics. ♥️
Lisa Ann Barriner I think you name four threats lol.
Poor girl was unlucky in Love...
Ya mean quadruple threat; you left out...she was black.
That's a quadruple threat..
Dorothy was wearing the hell out of that dress!!! ❤
Shoot I need my waistline and stomach like that!!
It looks as if the dress is painted on her! Gorgeous!
…nothin’ left but heaven!
@@aprilsunshine7565 👍👍👍
Good God Yes !!
Dorothy was a looker🤩
But the guy singer with her is not why ?
Seriously hot.
@Nancy Pelosi Shut up
How could anyone not fall in love with her?
Dorothy Dandridge beauty is astounding, She had a tragic life,and was friends with Marilyn Monroe who had a similar harrowing childhood, and they became fast friends till the end both gone too soon Dorothy with Harry Belafonte was fire Carmen Jones was a masterpiece There'll never be STARS like this again
Amen!
Totally agree.
Dorothy and Marilyn were very good friends as they both attended the same acting school in Los Angeles a lot of people don't know that
Many beatiful women around but people have to protect themseves
I’m OBSESSED with this. So adorable and catchy.
Same! It should get a remake.
YES !!
This style of performing is called vaudeville. BOTH white and black performers did the big facial expressions and body movements/dancing. You had to be larger than life for the audience in the back, this is the style that they are performing in. Even now, on braodway the style of the performance is bigger and more pronounced that on TV or film.
Appreciate your explanation. Those who are bothered by the man's performance might benefit from reading your explanation. Why don't you re-post it anew?
@@sageywavey, while I agree that too many of my fellow African descendants in this country try to find every reason to cry victim, I can't agree with your "complete and total failure" description of our race. It discounts the tens of thousands of Blacks who are successful, God-fearing, and non-vulgar in speech and behavior.
Ok cool, thanks for the lesson!! I knew he was performing did know it had a name!
@@TheWriterWalker A bunch of my fellow white people could benefit from the same. 👍
@@njineermike, I know you're right. Lol.
Shame that Paul has been forgotten. Such a voice. And Dorothy was a swell.
She was beautiful but I wish people would talk about her talent more, she's more than a pretty face.
It wasn't just her beauty. She deserves note for her sheer talent.
Marilyn M was pretty, but Dorothy D is my pick all day everyday. I'm hypnotized by that woman's beauty.
She does have it all. Wow!
@Put your tongue on my Ass I couldve swore I've seen you on another channel and I commented about ur profile being the fmaily guy
Why is Marilyn Monroe always brought up?
Can't we just let Dorthy shine for one moment here?
@@tom11zz884 What are talking about, that's exactly what I'm doing.....giving the woman her shine. And stop playing dumb, you know why that comparison is out there. But I don't even care, no one tops, or shines, Dorothy, NO ONE!
Marilyn patterned her whole image after Dorothy..she said it herself, they were friends
There was no other woman more beautiful than Dorothy Dandridge its a damn shame no man was able to commit to her and love her like she deserved
Simply brilliant. All style and real talent. No auto tune or computer touch ups. There was no where to hide back then. This is why this is solid gold 80 years later.
Hard to believe that she was unlucky in love, she was stunningly beautiful and adorable!
gorgeous xx
I thank these actors and actresses for paving the way for Blacks today. I’m also a Dorothy Dandridge fan too.
They did , but the sad fact is many modern viewers will still try to label these clips as exploiting black performers,
it's those very people who diminish the position that people like Dorothy Dandridge hold in the history of music.
And she has to be one of the most gorgeous women that's ever walked the Earth.
We grew up watching movies like this on afternoon or late Saturday night tv. We would sit together (seven of us at home then) on the floor with pillows. It rocked.
What a beautiful time.
Decades ago, I was a plumbing apprentice and I worked with a laborer, named Paco. He had come over the border from Mexico, as a teenager, in the late 1940's, in the Los Angeles area. He got himself a job and got married. He came home from work one day and discovered his wife threw his Zoot suit away. He loved that Zoot suit and was very sad to see it go, and was telling me about it 30 years after the fact. Wearing a Zoot suit in L.A. in the 1940's was like wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. It often led to scuffles in the street.
Wow ...I wonder why it lead to scuffles?
Interesting time....the 1940's..... WW2 was happening.......
@@caroldesarnoNeNe45 a combination of two factors: a) it was a veeery fabric heavy (and wasteful) garment in the heavily rationed war times and b) it was closely associated with the Mexican-American immigrant population.
So a mix of racism with a real concern in mind.
@@caroldesarnoNeNe45 LA was the scene of the Zoot Suit Riots between sailors and young fashionably-dressed Latino males (1943). A lot of effort has been expended to invest this event with significance, but it wasn't the first time that a bunch of servicemen on leave got into brawls with their civilian counterparts to blow off steam. After all, they've been trained to fight and as you point out this was wartime. Soldiers and sailors constantly get into dustups with each other when they're on leave out of service rivalry, for instance. And the resentment that servicemen hold toward non-serving military age civilians (the cadence count variations on "Jody's got your girl and gone," is not the only expression) is the stuff of legend. As part of the war effort, many items were rationed. Women's skirts were shortened, for instance. A zoot suit, a celebration of fabric, might have seemed out of step with the mission from a military perspective, if not a decadent exercise in self-indulgence by those avoiding service that amounted to a thumb of the nose toward their uniformed contemporaries.
@@caroldesarnoNeNe45 Look up the zoot suit riots of LA in 1943.
You're terrible, probably.
Anyone have this song stuck in their head and keep coming back to this video?
I would hazard a guess its impossible to get as much fun and joy as this in under 3 minutes anywhere else.
WOW! Great voices and style. No autotune. Genuine talent.
"Reet" is jive or hepcat talk for "right," "sharp," "outstanding," or "way out there." A reet pleat is a pleat that is carefully ironed and starched so that it physically stands out without wire appurtenances. (MC Hammer pants definitely do NOT have a reet pleat.) In the race film "Reet, Petite, and Gone," "reet" is referring to gals who are "lookers" (highly attractive). ("Gone" here is the same as "out of this world.") Harlem talk was highly inventive, but African-American talk in general has always been highly inventive. I taught in an all black school for seven years during the 70s. My students used "Mickey D's" way before the corporation used it! Did you know that a "solid dollar" is a dollar bill and not a dollar made up of pocket change? (My school was at 69th and Wentworth in Chicago.)
Great history lesson 👍🏾
So you taught at Kennedy-King College? I'm from Chicago & know the area well. Also, Jackie Wilson made a record named 'Reet Petite."
@@lyndajay4407 Yes, Kennedy-King used to be at 69th and Wentworth, That is where I was from '75-'82.
@@lyndajay4407 Barry Gordy was one of the writers for "Reet Petite."
@@josephpearson7164 That's awesome!
Love this. They are both crazy talented and actually look fresh AF.
for a quick moment in the mid to late 70's during the happy and wild disco era in NYC the Zoot suit made a come back and I'm proud that I was 1' of the few who found them in the thrift shop's of the lower east side and got to wear and dance in them
What was your experience in that era like? Sounds like a blast
I’m from the lower east side, I know exactly what your talking about. The 70s had a return to that earlier 40’s style. I had the cuffs in the pants just right before I stepped outside. You had to come correct!!!
Mrs Dandrige what a doll back in those days .I love her in Carmen Jones
I just recorded Carmen Jones last week....I love it too Jerry!
This put a smile on my face! The way we use to be! Now we’re against each other.
So Much Talent In Our CULTURE
Big Facts.
that’s not our culture but yea we have many gifts as a people...and great influence
@@macturner80 right because the zoot suit and the boot boot was a European flook flook.
Cosmo Energy ok
People When I Say Our Culture Not The Music Or The Dresscode The Performers And There Talent To Adapt And Adjust
Nobody says anything about Paul White - but I think he's terrific here. Fabulous tenorsax soloist too!
There are a lot of acting beauties, but Dorothy Dandridge had more charm than most actresses put together. I can’t think of more cuteness mixed with charm in other actresses. You can say Meg Ryan or Ginger Rogers when they were young but when you combine it with Dorothy’s dancing, it’s incomparable. She matured, too, she became more beautiful and could act drama and sing operatically ❤later as well.
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Dorothy was breathtaking!
She was amazing and so beautiful! 👏👏👏
Watching this clip makes me miss my mom & how she would school me on the classics. I remember her telling me that she had a "Carmen" skirt made, too.
♥️R. I. P. Mom 1939-2014♥️
Dorothy 😍 love her.
I really can't stop watching this...
This song was popular in Canada. My aunt used to sing it.
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I can look past Paul's eye buckin and all, I see all talent and energy.
Thank your pigskin masters
She's absolutely stunning! Wow!
I love it. And I don't even know why. This is real music.
Two great performers and a great piece of entertainment. All these years later it still rocks!
Love Dorothy's voice !
She looked 🔥…. Wow I was impressed
Wonderful!
I love the music from this era so much!!
My papaw used to sing this when I was a kid! I'm so glad I found this. My papaw would have been 14 years old in 1942. 💖
Dorothy Dandridge was the whole package. Super Gorgeous Woman
Dorothy was an absolute knockout and extremely talented, she deserved more
I love me some DOROTHY! Before MUSIC videos there were SOUNDIES! I have this video along with Dorothy's other Soundies in my D.D. Collection. Mike, you gonna make me pull out my VHS Tapes! LOL!
Dorothy Dandridge is so beautiful!
Gorgeous era with beautiful people
Yes, beauty can get you almost anything, even back then!
Dorothy D so beautiful- I love this hairstyle. Great song as well
Awwww I love this so much! How adorable, I love to sing and act this out haha
Hahah that's cute. You should make a video of your performance ☺️
It makes me smile when they each sing "here comes my walking rainbow!"
Always a treat to see one of my favorite idols-Dorothy Dandridge-on film. 😍😍😍😍
That gown she was wearing is fly. Love the shoulders.
Thank you for sharing the love of these great classics..young black youth need to be educated on our positive people of color from days gone by an their clean songs an dance moves compared to those of today😎
Great duet! Never heard of Paul White. Good singer.
They put a smile on my face. Now!!
Yes!!
Thanks to you I just discovered Dorothy Dandridge! ADORABLE! THANKS!!
Dorothy was such a natural beauty! Absolutely love her!
They don't make'em like this no more. Love this.
This is amazing.
What a wonderful experience to say you stood in the presence of that beautiful angel ❤❤
So sad there are no shows anymore like this one.
Omg! These two are totally adorable!! I love this song, too. How cute! ❤❤❤
She is magnificent
I just watched this like eight times in a row
Music used to be so classy and upbeat back in the day
Oh my ... Dorothy Dandridge is so pretty and so talented.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! tks
I love everything from the 40's. It's odd because it was all before my time. Still, the movies, the music, the styles were so wonderful!
I rented, and wore, a zoot suit for my second marriage...the missus rarely gives me grief, but when she does I am often prone to point out she married a man wearing a zoot suit...she can never argue that, lol...
I never get tired of this. ❤
Simply beautiful! Thank you.😳❤
Simply fantabulous!!
Marylin who? Gimme Dorothy any day, that lady was gorgeous!
Cool 😎
This is special, thank you for sharing.
Dorothy was so beautiful/cute...wow man.
My Mother sang this to us as kids in the 60s. In Australia !
So beautiful and talented.
It would be so cool if those styles came back in vogue.
I liked that song.
The outfits were amazing!!
Now I know what my mom was talking about when she said: "Zoot Suit with a reet pleat".
HOLY SHIT THAT DRESS IS PAINTED ON!!! GORGEOUS!!!!
What a rare gem.
Dorothy had that porcelain doll beauty about her
Prettier than Lena Horne IMO.....and that is saying a lot.
What a clean, beautiful, and talented professionals!🙏🙏🙏
I absolutely Love this thank you so much for sharing such a classic beauty. Awesome duet! 💜
She's so young and lovely!
My FAVORITE and MOST BEAUTIFUL NATURAL BLACK WOMEN of ALL time are: Dorothy Dandridge, Lola Falana, Diahann Carroll and Pam Grier. You CAN'T get better than that!!! Holla!!!!
Beautifil, yes. But natural? With all the weave and plastic surgery that TODAY'S black female actresses flaunt?
Name one who wears their natural hair - no weave or chemicals - ALL THE TIME.
What about Hazel Scott...she was a piece of eye candy too 😉
@@jermainevanbriesies8859 The actress,singer and classical pianist...yes, yes she was!!! :)
Josephine Baker.
The most beautiful smile of them all.
@@tommyd.743 ;)
That was so much fun to watch! She was so beautiful and talented....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dorothy was too cute! :)
To my modern eyes, the outfits they start with look MUCH sharper than the ones they're yearning for, haha. Still an amazing soundie, love it. Thank you so much.
I love all the black Tallent that was back in the 20 30 and 40
Far more talented than today's offerings.
She is gorgeous
I love this
I want a zoot suit
With a reet pleat 🎵🎶🎶🎼