Symphony In Black - A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935) | Duke Ellington & Billie Holiday 

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Billie bounced lol

I'm late to the party 🥳but I think it was the angle at witch he pushed her. After checking ✔up on his gal. He turns and pushes Billie Holiday from the back of her shoulder and down..

Billie said in her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues" that she shot 30 takes of the sequence where she's knocked to the ground by her faithless boyfriend, and since she was totally untrained in how to take a fall on screen, she was sore for weeks.

It was A good stunt fall because it was a real fall.😬 Ashley implied it's A silly looking stunt, instead it was too real.

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Billie said in her autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," that she had to shoot about 20 takes of that scene and she was sire fir weeks afterwards because nobody ever told her how to fake a fall onscreen without hurting herself.

LMAO!! That fall was silly as Hell!! 😂Ashley is crazy too...

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Ashley plays too much!! She's about a much of a mess as that fall on the floor... 😂

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You hear and see also Cootie Williams, Tricky Sam Nanton, Barney Bigard, Harry Carney, Otto Hardwick, Lawrence Brown, and others all seen and heard.

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Snake Hips toured with the Ellington Orchestra, and was a featured dancer when Ellington played the Cotton Club.

This must have been before she was addicted to drugs! She had a nice singing voice! 🎶

As early as 1928 Duke Ellington had already established himself as a "race man," a Black celebrity who felt an obligation to use whatever influence and power he had to fight for coivil rights and racial justice and equality. And a year before "Murder at the Vanities" he starred in a Paramount short called "A Bundle of Blues." Just after "Murder at the Vanities" he got to appear on-screen with Mae West in her film "Belle of the Nineties," and West was at the height of her star power. The "suits" at Paramount were O.K. with featuring Duke's band on the soundtrack but they wanted to put white musicians on the screen. No way, said Mae West: she demanded and got the right to have Ellington's musicians appear on screen with her.

@AlvesterGarnett @mgconlan Thank you both for these thoughtful info notes as to how the video clip got produced and the efforts required in the 1930s, for gawd’s sake, JUST to make a musical short reel featuring Black people!! The fact that neither the controversy in producing Nonwhite visual arts, nor the general pattern of reception for the productions have changed at all indicates strongly that The System of R/WS not only irrefutably exists, but here’s visual testament to its awesome powers of supremacy & domination over all involved. While I realize Ms. West’s own contributions to Paramount certainly SHOULD have afforded her lifetime executive status, it cannot be lost on a general public that in 2020-23, Mae West WOULD own a studio. Duke Ellington would probably, in all likelihood, not-unless it was in Mississippi or Georgia (concepts) WHICH ironically offer greater opportunities to Nonwhite people classified Black today than “Hollywood” appears to be offering, since the 1970s!. Perhaps the “Mae Wests” of today are the best placed, best-positioned, certainly the most-affluent women, in actual fact, to produce Justice worldwide. Perhaps it will turn out to be women who classify themselves White who invent Justice & launch it into practice vs. Systemic Injustice, launched since 1492. In all the other Areas of Activity besides merely in Entertainment as well!! But looking back to 1935, one cannot help but wonder what specifically stopped them-completely-from doing so-then??

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