Today In B'Days

Her birthday was actually yesterday, but I couldn't let it go unmarked, as she is one of Black Hollywood's national treasures. Cicely Tyson is 74.

I tried to find a clip of "Sounder", because I've been thinking about that movie lately. For those of you who don't know, "Sounder" was the poor black southern version of "Old Yeller". For those of you that don't know "Old Yeller", I don't know what to tell you. However, that movie seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

So anyway, here is a clip of Ms. Tyson in "The Rosa Parks Story" co-starring Angela Bassett. It's funny, cause Ms. Tyson seems to be the forerunner for Ms. Bassett, always keeping it dignified and strictly un-coon....Cicely would be playing Angela's roles 30 years ago. This movie was also directed by Julie Dash of "Daughters Of The Dust" fame.

Damn! Embedding disabled. So here is a trailer of her in "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich" with her co-star from "Sounder" Paul Winfield. LMAO at the YT announcer pronouncing the name of this movie all serious.

As a side note of trivia, Cicely was also married to Miles Davis. What a fun ride that must have been. (insert sarcasm here).