This photo appeared in the August 7, 1952 issue of Jet.
trio of Katherine Dunham dancers
January 24, 2022Written by sola rey
trio of Katherine Dunham dancers
Similar posts
Eartha Kitt, Jayne Kennedy and Freda Payne
January 30, 2022
on the cover of JET, July 11, 1974
Lena Horne with composer, arranger and vocal coach Phil Moore in July 1949.
January 28, 2022
Moore worked as an arranger for MGM and arranged music for the 1938 film The Duke Is Tops. Moore also helped Horne and Dorothy Dandridge develop their nightclub performances and coached, arranged and/or wrote songs for Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland,Pearl Bailey, Ava Gardner, Diahann Carroll, Johnny Mathis and The Supremes. He died in 1987.
22-year-old Marilyn Monroe with Phil Moore
January 26, 2022
Composer, arranger and vocal coach Phil Moore giving singing lessons to a 22-year-old Marilyn Monroe at the legendary West Hollywood nightclub, the Mocambo, in 1949. Ms. Monroe was quoted in Ebony magazine in 1960 as saying, “I will always be grateful to Phil Moore for his patience… he gave me confidence in my own vocal ability and made me realize that people would be willing to listen to me as well as look at me
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
No Comments Yet