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Dominique Revue
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Art and Film Creative + Fashion/Costume Designer: http://bit.ly/3yI3GOJ Full-time Gemini ... on the Orinoco Flow • CINEMA COFFEE • BETTYE: The Miniseries: http://shorturl.at/SwDT1 • Passion project: Dominique's THE SOCIETY: shorturl.at/rHJU5
Not knowing what or how to market the #OutKast #Musical, #IDLEWILD (2006)—written and directed by Bryan Barber—after completion, the film sat on the Universal shelf for two years.

Cinematography: Pascal Rabaud
Costume Designs: Shawn Barton
Choreography: Hinton Battle
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
And . . . not enough attention is given to this scene.

IDLEWILD
2006
Director: Bryan Barber
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
As I'm living for all the OutKast love that has overtaken my timeline . . . I repeat . . . all of this:

Not enough attention is given to IDLEWILD (2006).

The cast. The costumes. The music.

🎶Fashions well designed (Bowties)🎶 . . . That's all. kluvuthnxbye
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A little Gene Tierney to add some sparkle to Monday's shine. ✨
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."
—Baldwin
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Always rent free.

📷: James Baldwin and Doris Jean Castle
📸: Steve Schapiro
1963
New Orleans
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Dorothy Dandridge performs her “Oh-Ah-Oh” number, as referenced in JET magazine (December 15, 1955 issue), during her opening night performance at The Riviera in Las Vegas, November 1955.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
“We Negroes finally convinced the entertainment world not to stereotype us as just maids, porters and so on. But now too many producers are afraid to call us at all. Rather than do wrong, they do nothing.”

—Dorothy Dandridge
#BOTD

📷: Publicity portrait for CARMEN JONES (1954)
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Evansville, Indiana's vintage COOK'S GOLDBLUME BEER advertisement featuring . . . #DorothyDandridge.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
‘While experiencing what seemed to be a full acceptance, I encountered not-yetness.’

—Dorothy Dandridge
#BOTD

📷: Dorothy Dandridge, at the Savoy Hotel in London, captioned on the photo: "where she is for a cabaret season."
Dated April 11, 1956

(Photo credit: STAFF | AFP)
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance." ✨

—Hedy Lamarr

When you can back your beauty with brains . . . Hedy Lamarr. A different kind of "Bombshell."

Women in Film. Female of Frequency.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary #OnThisDate 1914(-2000) ... Remembering:

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

You know, 👑. #HedyLamarr on her Birthday Anniversary!
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given..."

—Time Magazine (ref. EBONY, 1962)

📷: Dorothy Dandridge, 20TH CENTURY FOX publicity portrait, c. 1954
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Been back on my Nancy Kwan FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961) bun and bow (okay, clip) shift. ✨🎀✨

🎶I enjoy being a girl🎶
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Dorothy Dandridge is a picture of loveliness[...]The gracious Dandridge stole the show at New York's[...]Academy Award ceremonies[...]She literally wowed cafe society in her debut last week[...]hailed as one of the most beautiful and talented women..."

—Associated Press, 1955
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
November 9th. Aka: The day I crowd the timeline with . . . #DorothyDandridge

📸 by Vera Jackson (pioneer Black female photographer, "hired as a staff photographer for the California Eagle in 1945[...]capturing both the glamour of Black celebrities and[...]Civil Rights movement after World War II")
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"The range between the two parts [BRIGHT ROAD and CARMEN JONES] suggests that she is one of the outstanding dramatic actresses of the screen."

—Newsweek, about:

Born Dorothy Jean Dandridge in Cleveland #OTD 1922 ... Remembering #DorothyDandridge on her Birthday Anniversary!
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Johnny - Thanks for everything - Sincerely - Dorothy Dandridge"
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's her day. ✨

Dorothy Dandridge was #BOTD
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"I'm 25 and I have a right—a right, Mrs. Winterbourne, to a very different life from this. And now I have the chance. And I'll stop at nothing to make the most of it!"

"I am Miss Blanche Fuller."

BLANCHE FURY
1948

Based on Marjorie Bowen's 1939 novel of the same name.
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A collection of Classic Film Noir is currently available on @kanopy.com

If BLANCHE FURY (1948) (or CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1948)) are films that still haven't made their rounds through your film-watch journey, I highly recommend them.

The Technicolor in BLANCHE FURY alone is gorgeous!
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This. Is beautiful.

Was walking along my merry way when the Sugar Plum Fairy caught my eye and led my attention to . . . 💖

🩰
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Same, Jenna. Same.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"I hope when you go [to research other cultures], you don’t just stop at the offices of the men in the cities, but that you go to the women in the country."

—Etta Moten-Barnett, 1980

For other recommended reading, including her advocacy for women's rights: searchablemuseum.com/etta-moten-b...
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM