🎶There's no need for them to be blue
For the Zah, Zuh, Zaz will always see them through🎶

Cab Calloway's HI-DE-HO
1934
featuring #BOTD #FrediWashington

#BOTD #FrediWashington in one of my personal favorite Cab Calloway numbers and songs—co-written by Cab Calloway, "Lady with the Fan"

📽️: CAB CALLOWAY'S HI-DE-HO (1934)

(Side Note: According to Calloway, the song was inspired by an actual Cotton Club chorus girl, Amy Spencer.)

"Why should I have to pass for anything[...]but an artist?"[...]"If they want me, they will call me, and if they accept me, they'll have to take me as I am."

Born Fredericka Carolyn Washington in Savannah, GA #OTD 1903 . . . Remembering #FrediWashington!

📸: Carl Van Vechten

BLACK AND TAN
1929
#Musical #shortfilm written/directed by Dudley Murphy, starring #DukeEllington, in his film debut, #FrediWashington, and featuring #TheFiveHotShots

“Black and Tan with Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra by arrangement with Irving Mills…Recorded by RCA Photophone System”

1934
SUPPORTING ACTRESS

the nominees
Alice Brady, The Gay Divorcee
Louise Dresser, The Scarlet Empress
Ginger Rogers, Flying Down to Rio
Fredi Washington, Imitation of Life

#movies #SupportingActress #ActingClips #AliceBrady #LouiseDresser #GingerRogers #FrediWashington

March 14
Imitation of Life (1934) feels so ahead of its time given it's perfect casting of Louise Beavers & Fredi Washington who deliver two of the great early sound performances. Both are magnificent apart but together are so powerful. They make the roles their own.

#LouiseBeavers #FrediWashington

Black History Month - 1920s Hollywood Edition #FrediWashington

#FrediWashington in one of my personal favorite Cab Calloway musical numbers and song—co-written by #CabCalloway, "Lady With The Fan"

📽️: CAB CALLOWAY'S HI-DE-HO (1934)

(Side Note: According to Calloway, the song was inspired by an actual Cotton Club chorus girl, Amy Spencer.)

#music #musicsky

Fredi Washington was #BOTD

"I was slightly uncomfortable while making the scene where I stood before the mirror asking, "Am I not white?"..."

—Fredi, about IMITATION OF LIFE (1934)

Born Fredericka Carolyn Washington in Savannah, GA #OTD 1903 ... Remembering #FrediWashington!

cont'd

"the theater of the future.” —Ethel Beckwith, BRIDGEPORT POST

Attendees of the Federal Theatre Project's production of #MACBETH on opening night, April 14th, 1936, at the Lafayette Theatre, included other notables such as #FrediWashington!

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#theatre #shakespeare #blackfilmsky #filmsky

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Fredi Washington actress. Played "Peola" in film Imitation of Life, as black woman passing as white. Declared ‘ I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race’
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#BlackhistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2024 #BlackActors #FrediWashington