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Zou Zou Josephine Baker musical: Lisa’s Home Bijou

January 3, 2020 by Lisa Grable 1 Comment

Divine Diva Josephine Baker goes from circus girl to laundress to the toast of Paris. With Jean Gabin. Lisa's Home Bijou: Zou Zou (1934)

Film Festival: Divine Divas Zou Zou, made in 1934, is one of the few performances of the woman lovingly known as “La Baker” preserved on film; a showcase for Josephine Baker’s comedic persona and her emotional singing. A child of the streets of St. Louis, she made her way to New York and into show…

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Filed Under: Culture, Movies Tagged With: 1934, black actors, black films, black history, classic films, French films, Jean Gabin, Josephine Baker, Lisa's Home Bijou, Zou Zou

Lisa’s Home Bijou: Stormy Weather

May 30, 2016 by Lisa Grable 3 Comments

Divine Diva Lena Horne catches Bill Robinson’s eye. With Cab Calloway, Dooley Wilson, Nicholas Brothers, Fats Waller, and more! Lisa's Home Bijou: Stormy Weather (1943)

Film Festival: Divine Divas Lena Horne plays the leading lady in Stormy Weather, a film legacy of her expressive voice and luminous beauty. One of America’s divine divas, she came to our attention as a chorine at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club and made her way to Hollywood to become the first black woman to sign…

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Filed Under: Culture, Movies Tagged With: 1943, Ada Brown, African American history, Bill Robinson, black actors, black films, black history, Cab Calloway, classic films, Dooley Wilson, Emmett Babe Wallace, Fats Waller, Katherine Dunham, Lena Horne, Lisa's Home Bijou, musicals, Nicholas Brothers, Stormy Weather

Lisa’s Home Bijou: Carmen Jones

May 2, 2016 by Lisa Grable 2 Comments

Divine Divas Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, and Diahann Carroll go from making parachutes in the South to the high life in Chicago. Harry Belafonte's heart gets broken. Lisa's Home Bijou: Carmen Jones (1954)

Film Festival: Divine Divas The fire and spice of Dorothy Dandridge is preserved for us in Carmen Jones (1954), a modernization of Bizet’s opera. Carmen Jones moves Bizet’s story of Carmen from a cigarette factory in Spain to a parachute factory in the southern United States. Otto Preminger directed the all-black cast, with Bizet’s music…

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Filed Under: Culture, Movies Tagged With: 1954, African American history, Bizet, black actors, black films, black history, Carmen Jones, classic films, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Lisa's Home Bijou, musicals, Otto Preminger, Pearl Bailey

Lisa’s Home Bijou: Cabin in the Sky

April 18, 2016 by Lisa Grable Leave a Comment

Divine Divas Ethel Waters and Lena Horne try to win Eddie Anderson’s soul with all-star support from Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and more! Lisa's Home Bijou: Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Film Festival: Divine Divas ETHEL WATERS was one of the first black divas to cross-over and successfully sing pop tunes. In Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film version of the hit Broadway musical by Lynn Root, John Latouche, and Vernon Duke, Waters recreates her stage role on film accompanied by a stellar cast. Waters…

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Filed Under: Culture, Movies Tagged With: 1943, black actors, black films, black history, Cabin in the Sky, classic films, Duke Ellington, Eddie Anderson, Ethel Waters, John Bubbles, Lena Horne, Lisa's Home Bijou, Louis Armstrong

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Lisa Grable, Casa BouquetI’m an educator, grandmother, classic movie fan, sewer and crafter, and I love Hawaii. Read more about me …

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