4 Responses to Videos | Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America’s Black Female Superstars

1. Yahtc says:

   November 22, 2013 at 11:38 am

   You may erase both of these duplicates, please.

   I could not copy URL for just Blanche Calloway.

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   • Yahtc says:

     November 22, 2013 at 3:49 pm

     Thanks!

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2. Yahtc says:

   November 22, 2013 at 10:11 am

   “Unsung Classic Beauties of the 1930’s and 1940’s”

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u2nC6WYmWPw

   Uploaded on Jan 27, 2010 by MusicandDancing4Ever

   0:15 – 0:18 Nina Mae McKinney – Actress/Dancer/Singer
   
0:18 – 0:20 Betti Mays – 1940’s Singer/Dancer

   0:20 – 0:22 – Anne Wiggins Brown – Concert Singer/Broadway Actress of Porgy
   
0:22 – 0:24 Blanche Thompson – Dancer/Creator of The Brownskin Models Revue

   0:24 – 0:26 Ethel Moses – Cotton Club Dancer/Actress

   0:26 – 0:28 Mauri Lynn – Actress/Model

   0:28 – 0:30 Dolores Brown – Singer/Recording Artist

   0:30 – 0:32 Louise Franklin – Movie Dancer/Actress

   0:32 – 0:33 Evelyn Preer – Actress/Singer

   0:34 – 0:35 Marion Egbert – Cotton Club Chorine

   0:36 – 0:38 Lavada Carter – 1930s Singer/Dancer
   
0:39 – 0:40 Valaida Snow – Singer/Dancer/Trumpeter
   
0:41 – 0:42 Hilda Simms – Actress

   0:43 – 0:44 Hazel Scott – Singer/Pianist
   
0:44 – 0:45 Margot – 1930’s Ballroom Dancer of Margot and Norton

   0:46 – 0:47 Joyce Bryant – 1950’s Singer

   0:48 – 0:49 Margaret Whitten – 1930’s/1940’s Actress
   
0:50 – 0:51 Cleo Hayes – 1930’s/1940’s Dancer / Cotton Club

   0:52 – 0:53 Jean Parks – 1940’s Singer/Friend of Malcolm X

   0:54 – 0:55 Marie Bryant – Dancer

   0:56 – 0:58 Ellen Holly – Actress

   0:59 – 1:00 Marva Trotter Louis – Model/First Wife of Joe Louis

   1:00 – 1:02 Una Mae Carlisle – Singer/Pianist/Songwriter

   1:02 – 1:04 Gladys Snyder – 1940’s Actress

   1:04 – 1:06 Edna Mae Harris – Actress/Singer/Dancer

   1:06 – 1:08 Anna Mae Winburn – Singer/Bandleader of The Sweethearts of Rhythm

   1:08 – 1:10 Vivienne Baber – 1930’s/1940’s Actress

   1:10 – 1:12 Ginger Smock – Violinist

   1:12 – 1:14 Lucille Battle/Mille Monroe – Actresses/Dancers
   
1:15 – 1:17 Angela De Lavallade – Actress/Model

   1:17 – 1:19 Pat Rainey – Singer

   1:19 – 1:21 Edna Mae Holly – Dancer/First wife of Sugar Ray Robinson

   1:21 – 1:23 Pauline Green – Model

   1:23 – 1:24 Etta Rae – Model

   1:25 – 1:27 Anise Boyer – Dancer/Cotton Club/Anise and Aland

   1:27 – 1:30 Millie Monroe, Mildred Boyd, Louise Franklin – Dancers/Actresses

   1:30 – 1:32 Florence O’Brien – Comedian/Singer/Dancer/Actress

   1:32 – 1:34 Suzette Harbin – Actress/Dancer

   1:34 – 1:36 Nellie Hill – Singer/Actress

   1:37 – 1:39 Francine Everett – Singer/Actress

   1:39 – 1:41 Victoria Spivey – Blues Singer

   1:41 – 1:43 Theresa Harris – Hollywood Actress/Singer

   1:43 – 1:45 Ruby Hill – Singer

   1:46 – 1:47 Bette McLaurin – Singer

   1:47 – 1:50 Sarah Lou Harris – Model

   1:50 – 1:52 Artie Young – Dancer/Actress

   1:52 – 1:54 Madeline Belt – Dancer
   
1:54 – 1:57 Sahji / Madeline Jackson – Exotic Dancer
   
1:58 – 2:00 Connie Harris – Exotic Dancer

   2:01 – 2:03 – Ida James – Singer/Actress

   2:03 – 2:04 Rita Christiani – Dancer
   
2:05 – 2:07 Meta Cardoza – Dancer

   2:07 – 2:09 Madelyn Green – Singer

   2:09 – 2:10 Carroll Chilton – Dance Team of Chilton and Thomas

   2:11 – 2:12 Eunice Wilson – 1930s Singer/Dancer
   
2:13 – 2:14 Neeka Shaw – 1930’s Entertainer

   2:15 – 2:17 The Pope Sisters – 1930’s Sister Singing Group
   
2:17 – 2:19 Vivian Dandridge – Singer/Actress

   2:20 – 2:22 Sheila Guyse – 1940s Singer/Actress

   2:22 – 2:25 Judy Carol – Dancer/Singer
   
2:25 – 2:27 – Dorothy Van Engle – 1930s Model/Oscar Micheaux Actress

   2:28 – 2:29 Ruth Hill – 1940s Singer
   
2:30 – 2:31 Fredi Washington – Actress/Dancer
   
2:32 – 2:33 – Isabel Washington – Actress/Dancer
   
2:34 – 2:35 Louise Jota Cook – 1930s Dancer

   2:36 – 2:37 Blanche Calloway – Singer/Bandleader

   2:38 – 2:39 Savannah Churchill – Singer/Recording Artist

   2:40 – 2:41 Izinetta Wilcox – Actress/Singer

   2:48 – 2:51 Florence Mills
   
2:52 – 2:55 Bessie Smith
   
2:56 – 2:59 Ethel Waters

   3:00 – 3:04 Maude Russell – Dancer/Actress – Introduced The Charleston

   3:05 – 3:07 Josephine Baker

   3:08 – 3:11 Adelaide Hall

   3:12 – 3:16 Valaida Snow

   3:16 – 3:19 Lucia Moses – Cotton Club Chorine/Dancer/Star of Scar of Shame

   3:20 – 3:23 Alice Whitman – Tap Dancer/Apart of The Whitman Sisters Revue that opened the doors for many black performers
   
3:24 – 3:28 Nina Mae McKinney

   3:29 – 3:32 Hycinth Curtis – Cotton Club Dancer

   3:33 – 3:36 Etta Moten

   3:37 – 3:40 Elisabeth Welch

   3:41 – 3:44 Billie Holiday 

   3:45 – 3:47 Maxine Sullivan

   3:47 – 3:50 Ella Fitzgerald

   3:51 – 3:54 Lena Horne

   3:55 – 3:59 Katherine Dunham

   4:00 – 4:02 Sarah Vaughn
   
4:03 – 4:06 Hazel Scott

   4:07 – 4:10 Hadda Brooks
   
4:10 – 4:14 Eartha Kitt

   4:15 – 4:19 Sheila Guyse

   4:20 – 4:22 Dorothy Dandridge
   
4:23 – 4:26 Suzette Harbin
   
4:27 – 4:30 Ophelia DeVore – Pioneer of Black Models

   4:31 – 4:35 Tessa Prendergast – Pioneer Designer

   4:36 – 4:39 Pearl Bailey

   4:40 – 4:43 Muriel Rahn
   
4:44 – 4:48 Ruby Dee

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   • Yahtc says:

     November 22, 2013 at 10:15 am

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5u7q0hSCMX4

     Correction. Here is the video that belongs with the list above:

     “Unsung Classic Beauties of the 1930’s and 1940’s”

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