📸 On This Day in Black History – November 30, 1912 📸

Gordon Parks was a trailblazing photographer, musician, writer, and film director.

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Paul De Longpre: French-born flower painter was the first Hollywood celebrity in the early 1900s In Hollywood, there’s a street called De Longpre Avenue, one block south of Sunset Boulevard, between La Brea Avenue and North Gower Street, and De Longpre Park is located at De Longpre Avenue and …

Paul De Longpre: French-born flower painter was the first Hollywood celebrity in the early 1900s

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URL: filmtalk.org/2021/09/23/p...

Betty Lasky: “My father [Jesse L. Lasky] was co-founder of Paramount, yet now he’s a forgotten film mogul” This old black and white still from Betty Lasky’s family album was taken by her mother Bessie, ca. 1930, Santa Monica beach, near their beach home. Jesse L. Lasky and his three children, Jess…

Betty Lasky: “My father [Jesse L. Lasky] was co-founder of Paramount, yet now he’s a forgotten mogul”

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URL: filmtalk.org/2017/04/25/b...

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Hattie McDaniel became the first Black Oscar winner for her role in Gone with the Wind.

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