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Arlenis Sosa was recognized by the Dominican President Leonel Fernandez as a youth treasure for her philanthropic work.
Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York
The Mega Mansions of St.Tropez
Eartha Kitt, Jayne Kennedy and Freda Payne
Lena Horne with composer, arranger and vocal coach Phil Moore in July 1949.
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
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
Saidie Sellyna, an actress, singer and dancer in a publicity photo, circa 1911
trio of Katherine Dunham dancers
Andre Leon Talley with his then boss Eunice Johnson (Yves Saint Laurent is in the background) in 1981.
Mrs. Johnson, who ran the Ebony Fashion Fair shows for decades, is featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Style section today: How a Couture Pioneer Changed Fashion.
Serge Lifar and Josephine Baker
Model Helen Williams.1960s Kodak advertisement.
Jimi Hendrix
Beauty Queens in the 1940’s
models
Anchal Joesph
Dripping in gold
Show stopper
Naomi Sims on the August 1973 cover of Cosmopolitan.
Ophelia DeVore as a model in the 1940s.
Model: Helen Williams
not just a groundbreaker, she was one of the most successful models of the 1950s and 1960s. Signed to Ophelia DeVore’s modeling agency, she went on to model in advertisements for Kodak, Bulova and countless other brands.
Bethann Hardison
Legendary model agent and Vogue Italia editor-at-large Bethann Hardison is one of the most stunning women we know. It’s no wonder—in the ’60s and 70s, she was a boundary-breaking fashion model!
Donyale Luna (1 January 1945 – 17 May 1979)
was a model and cover girl. She also appeared in several films, most notably as the title character in Salome, a 1972 film by director Carmelo Bene, and several films by Andy Warhol.
In January 1965, a sketch of Luna appeared on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar.She became the first African American model to appear on the cover of British Vogue (March 1966); the photograph was by David Bailey.”
