Sola Rey | The Love For All Things Global The Love For All Things Global Home About Me Contact Home About Me Contact BeautyBeauty is a requirement in my life, not an option.Learn more Travel The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint AugustineLearn more Science “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil deGrasse TysonLearn more Technology Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke Learn more Wealth “I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.” ― Dorothy ParkerLearn more Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York April 28, 2022 1 Comment Written by sola rey this photo from May 1956 Read More Actors, Beauty, Fashion, Photography Eartha Kitt, Jayne Kennedy and Freda Payne January 30, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey on the cover of JET, July 11, 1974 Read More Actors, Classics, Models, Photography Art, Athena, chic, classy, leisure, Model, Photography, runway, Travel Lena Horne with composer, arranger and vocal coach Phil Moore in July 1949. January 28, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey 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. Read More Actors, Classics, interior design 22-year-old Marilyn Monroe with Phil Moore January 26, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey 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 Read More Actors, Classics Saidie Sellyna, an actress, singer and dancer in a publicity photo, circa 1911 January 26, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey singer and actress in Russia in the 1920s Read More Actors, Classics trio of Katherine Dunham dancers January 24, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey This photo appeared in the August 7, 1952 issue of Jet. Read More Classics Andre Leon Talley with his then boss Eunice Johnson (Yves Saint Laurent is in the background) in 1981. January 22, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey 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. Read More Classics chic, classy, dress Serge Lifar and Josephine Baker January 22, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey Josephine Baker and the legendary Russian ballet dancer Serge Lifar on the beach, Read More Actors, Classics Model Helen Williams.1960s Kodak advertisement. January 20, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey The most photographed Black model of the 1950s and 1960s. Read More Classics, Photography Jimi Hendrix January 19, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey Read More ART, Classics, Photography Oprah Winfrey Accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award January 18, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/JaaPTUbaH_s Read More Actors Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Oprah Winfrey, Pearl Bailey, Screen Actors Guild, Viola Davis The beauty Of Color January 18, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey Read More Beauty, Models, Photography Art, Athena, chic, classy, leisure, Model, Photography, runway, Travel Beauty Queens in the 1940’s January 18, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s. Read More Actors, Beauty Pagent, Classics, Movie Liya Kebede January 16, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey Read More Beauty, Models, Photography Art, Athena, chic, classy, leisure, Model, Photography, runway, Travel Dynasty: Alexis Carrington Colby January 16, 2022 1 Comment Written by sola rey Barbie Collector Alexis Carrington Colby Dynasty Doll From January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989, Dynasty kept us glued to our TVs with it primetime soap opera drama. The story revolved around rich and powerful oil tycoon Blake Carrington. His former secretary and current wife, Krystle Carrington and scheming ex-wife, Alexis Carrington Colby, could […] Read More Actors, Classics, Fashion Beauty comes in all Shades January 14, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey Read More Models, Photography Art, Athena, chic, classy, leisure, Model, Photography, runway, Travel absolutely fabulous is one of my Favorite Classic UK Shows January 12, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/tPD-MrMWYi4 Award-winning sitcom set in the world of fashion and PR. Featuring Actresses Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Read More Actors, Beauty, Classics, Fashion Art, Athena, bbc, chic, classic, classy, comedy, leisure, Model, Photography, runway, sitcom, Travel, TV, uk Iman is 54 yrs old. January 12, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey Looking youthful than some women who are 20 years younger. Read More Beauty, Fashion, Models, Photography Art, Athena, chic, classy, leisure, Model, Photography, runway, Travel Breakfast at Tiffany’s January 10, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/urQVzgEO_w8 In an idealized New York City during the early ’60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won’t even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a commitment to a relationship. Maintaining a childlike innocence yet wearing the most perfect of designer clothes and accessories from Givenchy, she spends her time on expensive dates and at high-class parties. She escorts various wealthy men, yet fails to return their affections after they have given her gifts and money. Holly’s carefree independence is changed when she meets her neighbor, aspiring writer Paul (George Peppard), who is suffering from writer’s block while being kept by a wealthy woman (Patricia Neal). Just when Holly and Paul are developing their sweet romance, Doc (Buddy Ebsen) appears on the scene and complicates matters, revealing the truth about Holly’s past. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was nominated for several Academy awards, winning Best Score for Henry Mancini and Best Song for Johnny Mercer’s classic tune “Moon River”. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi Read More Actors, Beauty, Classics, Trailers Art, Athena, Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, chic, classic, classy, comedy, Givenchy, leisure, Model, New York, Photography, runway, sitcom, socialite, Travel My Fair Lady January 8, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/EzAufG9zFSk At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). After delivering a musical tirade against “verbal class distinction,” Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White) that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins’ doorstep, offering to pay him to teach her to be a lady. “It’s almost irresistable,” clucks Higgins. “She’s so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.” He turns his mission into a sporting proposition, making a bet with Pickering that he can accomplish his six-month miracle to turn Eliza into a lady. This is one of the all-time great movie musicals, featuring classic songs and the legendary performances of Harrison, repeating his stage role after Cary Grant wisely turned down the movie job, and Stanley Holloway as Eliza’s dustman father. Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway but producer Jack Warner felt that Andrews, at the time unknown beyond Broadway, wasn’t bankable; Hepburn’s singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Andrews instead made Mary Poppins, for which she was given the Best Actress Oscar, beating out Hepburn. The movie, however, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Harrison, and five other Oscars, and it remains one of the all-time best movie musicals Read More Actors, Beauty, Classics, Fashion, Trailers Art, Athena, Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, chic, classic, classy, comedy, Givenchy, Humphrey Bogart, leisure, Model, my fair lady, New York, Photography, runway, sabrina, sitcom, socialite, Travel Sabrina 1954 AUDREY HEPBURN January 8, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/P7mzrrL1ifI SABRINA, starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. The film’s promotional materials and trail made much ado about the film’s pedigree, which boasted of four osacr-winners in the three leads and the director, but the charm of this film is its Cinderella-like story of a chauffer’s daughter who blossoms into a stylish youg woman after spending time in Paris. Critics loved the film, which received six Oscar nominations including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenpaly. Only Edith Head took home the coveted stauette for her chic costume design. Read More Actors, Beauty, Classics, Trailers Art, Athena, Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, chic, classic, classy, comedy, Givenchy, Humphrey Bogart, leisure, Model, New York, Photography, runway, sabrina, sitcom, socialite, Travel Jerry Lewis introduces Dorothy Dandridge January 6, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/UltcbzmTodo on her first appearance on The Colgate Comedy Hour. The video is available on The Colaget Comedy Hour Read More Actors, Beauty, Classics Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Pearl Bailey INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE January 4, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/7eOg8o6M-58 a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1998, the film was aired in the United States on August 21, 1999. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. The film is marketed with the tagline: “Right woman. Right place. Wrong time.” 2000 Black Reel Awards 2000 Directors Guild of America 2000 Emmy Awards 2000 Golden Globes 2000 Image Awards 2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was everything America wanted a movie star to be…except white Actress, dancer, singer. Here was a woman with talent, beauty and ambition. Dorothy Dandridge owed it to herself to make it to the top. And make it, she would. An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn’t let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of “Carmen Jones”, becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star – with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn’t wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige. Read More Actors, Beauty, Fashion Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Dorothy Dandridge, Halley Berry, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Pearl Bailey Halle Berry Wins Best Actress TV Movie – Golden Globes 2000 January 2, 2022 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/6xNp37oWEiM Seth Green and Claudia Schiffer present the Best Actress in a Mini Series or TV Movie award to Halle Berry for her role in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.” She dedicates the award to Dorothy Dandridge and thanks the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, HBO, the producers, her mother, and many others. Read More Actors Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Pearl Bailey Viola Davis Wins Best Actress January 1, 2022 1 Comment Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/Ua_Rf9ADK2U At The Screen Actors Guild Awards 2012 Read More Actors Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Pearl Bailey, Screen Actors Guild, Viola Davis Denzel Washington winning Best Supporting Actor December 28, 2021 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/_jbHwmvg7Rk Read More Actors Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Denzel Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Pearl Bailey, Screen Actors Guild, Viola Davis Jamie Foxx winning Best Actor for “Ray” December 27, 2021 1 Comment Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/y2a1nzAciMc Read More Actors Art, Carmen Jones, classic, Denzel Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte, Jamie Foxx, Jerry Lewis, movie, musical, Pearl Bailey, Screen Actors Guild, Viola Davis Cuba Gooding Jr.’s ecstatic Oscar® acceptance speech December 26, 2021 0 Comments Written by sola rey http://youtu.be/cnCMqr1QRQw Cuba Gooding Jr. winning an Oscar – Best Supporting Actor, Jerry Maguire – 69th Annual Academy Awards®. 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Design your space NEWSLETTER You wouldn’t believe it if you looked on the runway, at an ad campaign, or heck...anywhere, but people of color are buying more luxury goods than ever. Nielsen just released its consumer report on black Americans, and the market research firm's findings were, to say the very least, quite eye-opening. With black buying power expected to to reach $1.7 trillion by 2017, the report notes how increasingly important it's become for brands to market to black people. Sadly, getting companies to realize this has been a struggle. According to the report, $75 billion dollars was spent last year on television, magazine, internet, and radio advertising, yet only $2.24 billion was spent on media focused on black audiences. A puzzling figure indeed. 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