fuckyeahbillieholiday:

Lady during a recording session for her album Music for Torching for Verve on August 25, 1955.

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classicalallure:

She is like Salome. She has seven veils. If you lift one, there is a second, and what you discover is even more mysterious, and you go to the third, and you still don’t know where you are. Only at the end, if you keep looking faithfully, will you find the true Josephine. 

Choreographer George Balachine on Josephine Baker.

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Phyllis Hyman

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vintagegal:

Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones (1954)

thestrutny:

(via Happy Birthday Marvin Gaye)