SMOKE HOUR ★

[ado0odi]

[kilianromero]

Happy weekend & Chesterfield (1927)

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Sarah Vaughan

[initialsbb]

Lola Falana in A Man Called Adam (1966)

[gregorygalloway]

Diana Sands (22 August 1934 – 21 September 1973)

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin with actress Diana Sands and filmmaker Burgess Meredith

[mwana-wevhu]

South Africa ca. 1967-1976 (Scheub, Harold)

[boydswan]

JOHN CASSAVETES & PETER FALK in MIKEY AND NICKY (1976) dir. Elaine May

[caviardujour]

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Starring Sammy Davis Jr. (1955)

[cosmicanger]

Eartha Kitt in All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1982), dir. Christian Blackwood

[donuts4nal]

[mademoiselleclipon]

Emma Mae (1976)

[oldshowbiz]

Sanford and Smoke

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Eartha Kitt works out in London to stay in shape for her singing engagement at the Talk of the Town nightclub in British Pathé newsreel footage from 1960. Her daily exercise sessions were two hours long and included stretching, weights, cardio, and sit-ups.

[blackinmotionpictures]

  (Chameleon Street, 1989 dir. Wendell B. Harris Jr.)

Inspired by a 1983 Detroit Free Press article, Chameleon Street is a film based on the dizzying confessions of Detroit con artist and high school drop-out William Douglas Street, Jr. Who successfully impersonated professional reporters, lawyers, athletes, extortionists, and surgeons in the 1970s and 80s