Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". Throughout his career he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration.
Born Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr., at Lying-in Hospital, Harlem, New York, Belafonte was the son of Melvine (née Love) – a housekeeper of Jamaican descent – and Harold George Bellanfanti, Sr., a Martiniquan who worked as a chef in the National Guard. From 1932 to 1940, he lived with his grandmother in her native country of Jamaica. When he returned to New York City, he attended George Washington High School after which he joined the Navy and served during World War II. In the 1940s, he was working as a janitor's assistant in NYC when a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and also met Sidney Poitier. The financially struggling pair regularly purchased a single seat to local plays, trading places in between acts, after informing the other about the progression of the play. At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre. He subsequently received a Tony Award for his participation in the Broadway revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac.
Harry Belafonte - The Very Best
Harry Belafonte - "Banana Boat Song (Day O)" - 1956
Harry Belafonte 1988
Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line (Lyrics In Description)
Harry Belafonte receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2014 Governors Awards
Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (live) 1997
Harry Belafonte. Matilda
Harry Belafonte on the Muppet Show
Harry Belafonte - Island In The Sun
Miriam Makeba et Harry Belafonte (1966)
Harry Belafonte - Try To Remember
Harry Belafonte - Matilda (1966) Live
Harry Belafonte - Matilda (live) 1997
The Muppet Show s03e19 Harry Belafonte (Full episode)
Plot
Set in the early 1950's, the film is centered around the infamous "Hollywood Blacklist" - the infamous list of entertainers who were singled out and blacklisted for their political leanings and associations (specifically the Communist Party), whether they were proven or just suspected. The movement damaged careers and friendships, and promoted ideological censorship across the entire industry.
Keywords: blacklist, communism, hollywood-ten, red-scare
Plot
This biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for "Carmen Jones", to her final demise to prescription drugs, which was debated whether it was suicide or accidental. Brent Spiner plays her faithful manager who stood beside her through all of the roller coaster of her career. The film also examines her love affair with director Otto Preminger, which is shown to have probably initially helped her career, but later probably led her to some wrong decisions. The film also examines 50's racism as the black star is not permitted to use white bathrooms or the Vegas pool. In the first situation, she was given a bathroom cup to pee in. In the second situation, the hotel drained the pool and scrubbed it after she dared put her foot in the water.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, abuse, academy-award, actor, actress, adultery, african-american, alcoholism
Right woman. Right place. Wrong time.
She was everything America wanted a movie star to be... except white.
Harold Nicholas: Dottie, it's a whole different ballgame over there! They don't know the difference between black and white, and when they do, it's because they're treating us better than they treat their own!::Dorothy Dandridge: I can't go to Paris! Lynn is going to need special care!::Harold Nicholas: Then get special care.::Dorothy Dandridge: Not in an institution!::Harold Nicholas: Dottie, she doesn't even know we're here.::Dorothy Dandridge: I'm her mother. And you are her father.::Harold Nicholas: And I married you. Not this.::Dorothy Dandridge: Well, I am this! What are you?::Harold Nicholas: I'm Harold Nicholas, of the Nicholas Brothers. And maybe that's all I'm supposed to be.
Earl Mills: [notices thick makeup on Dorothy's face] What happened to your face?::Dorothy Dandridge: Guess I wasn't black enough to lead the tribe.
Vivian Dandridge: You think because you've become a big film star by shaking your tail, people aren't going to treat you like you're colored? Well, I'm something too! I'm something too! I'm more than Dorothy Dandridge's *big sister*! Didn't you ever notice that? Didn't you?
Dorothy Dandridge: Have you seen my man? That Carmen Jones snatched him from me and I'm all lost over what to do about it. Can't decide. If it's better I follow him up to the Windy City, or should I wait? Wait for him to come back to his happy-hearted home? Tell me what to do... I'm Cindy Lou.::Otto Preminger: The hell you are.
Dorothy Dandridge: Harold says I'm the most beautiful girl in the world.::Geri Nicholas: I'd rather be smart than beautiful.::Dorothy Dandridge: Well, I'd rather be beautiful.::Geri Nicholas: Beauty fades. A woman gets old.::Dorothy Dandridge: Not me. I'm staying young and beautiful unti the day I die!
Dorothy Dandridge: Have you ever caught sight of yourself by accident and you see yourself from the outside? That's who you really are.
Mocambo Emcee: Ladies and gentlemen, the delicious... the divine... the delightful... Dorothy Danridge!
Dorothy Dandridge: [angrily] Tonight, I'll take my bows and exit stage rear, go through the kitchen, past the casino, around the pool, which I'm apparently too dirty to swim in, up the service elevator, into my luxurious penthouse, sip my complimentary champagne, and pee in a brand new Dixie cup!::Earl Mills: I take that walk with you every night, you know.::Dorothy Dandridge: But the difference is, Earl, you don't HAVE to!
Dorothy Dandridge: [after Otto attends the premiere of "Carmen Jones" with his wife] How dare you parade her in front of me.::Otto Preminger: I didn't know she was coming.::Dorothy Dandridge: It was *my* night, Otto! You won't be seen with me in public, but then I have to watch you traipse around with her!::Otto Preminger: She's my wife.::Dorothy Dandridge: Tell her to leave. You have an understanding, remember? She openly makes the rounds with another man, Otto, and you don't complain about it! So, why couldn't you spend the evening with me?
Harry Belafonte - The Very Best
Harry Belafonte - "Banana Boat Song (Day O)" - 1956
Harry Belafonte 1988
Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line (Lyrics In Description)
Harry Belafonte receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2014 Governors Awards
Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (live) 1997
Harry Belafonte. Matilda
Harry Belafonte on the Muppet Show
Harry Belafonte - Island In The Sun
Miriam Makeba et Harry Belafonte (1966)
Harry Belafonte - Try To Remember
Harry Belafonte - Matilda (1966) Live
Harry Belafonte - Matilda (live) 1997
The Muppet Show s03e19 Harry Belafonte (Full episode)
JAMAICA FAREWELL ORIGINAL-- HARRY BELAFONTE
Harry Belafonte - Jamaica Farewell (live) 1997
HARRY BELAFONTE ""HONOREE"" - (COMPLETE) 12th KENNEDY CENTER HONORS, 1989 {40}
Nat King Cole & Harry Belafonte Mama Look A Boo Boo NBCTV '57Z
Susan Sarandon honors Harry Belafonte at the 2014 Governors Awards
Harry Belafonte - The Joys of Christmas - The Most Famous Harry Belafonte's Christmas Songs
Man Smart, Woman Smarter (live) - Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte - Jamaica Farewell
Muppet Show. Harry Belafonte - Turn the World Around (ep314)
The World, The Flesh and The Devil
The Angel Levine 1970 Harry Belafonte Eli Wallach Full Length Movie
Harry Belafonte on the Obama Presidency: Interviewed at the Sundance Film Festival
Movie Trailer: Sing Your Song [Harry Belafonte Documentary by Susanne Rostock]
Harry Belafonte - Island In The Sun (HD)
Beetlejuice - Day-o (Banana Boat Song)
Winona Ryder . Jump In The Line . Shake Senora . BeetleJuice 1988 Harry Harold George Belafonte Jr
"Sing your song" im Kino: die Geschichte des Musikers Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte Film Black de Montréal (2012)
Mary`s Boy Child (Harry Belafonte)
HBO Documentary Films: Sing Your Song Trailer
Sing your song - HARRY BELAFONTE
Harry Belafonte Pamela Frank 2012 Tribeca Film Festival - The Zen of Bennett premi
Sylvie sung by Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte Sings AMEN at Sidney Poitier's AFI Life Achievement Award
OCCUPIED WALL STREET HARRY BELAFONTE TRIBUTE film by MUSA KALEEM KEITA - "THE POET OF HARLEM"
The Angel Levine Official Trailer #1 - Harry Belafonte Movie (1970) HD
Carmen Jones (1954) Trailer (Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey)
Sing Your Song Trailer (Documentary Harry Belafonte)
Harry Belafonte,Jamaica Farewell,live
Harry Belafonte - Try To Remember (live) 1997
Harry Belafonte Reflects on Life as a Singer, Actor and Activist
Harry Belafonte - Turn The World Around (live) 1997
Harry Belafonte - Hine Ma Tov (live in England, 1960)
Harry Belafonte - Island In the Sun (live) 1997
Harry Belafonte - Matilda (Live At Carnegie Hall) (HD) Officiel Seniors Musik
Harry Belafonte - Matilda
Harry Belafonte, Skin to Skin,LIVE im Duett mit Sharon Brooks
Harry Belafonte and Odetta - There's A Hole in The Bucket
Hava Nageela - Harry Belafonte.wmv
Harry Belafonte Falls Asleep Waiting For an Interview
Man Piaba- Harry Belafonte.
Harry Belafonte: 'Faced with oppression, I had to act'
Harry Belafonte interview - SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR
Harry Belafonte Explains Jay-Z Statement:"Benefits 4 Obama Aren't Enough"
Fault Lines - Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte Interview about Martin Luther King, Swedish Television 2003
Harry Belafonte interview # 2 by Tomi Lindblom (1993) / Finland
Harry Belafonte slams Jay-Z and Beyonce
Harry Belafonte 1958
TAVIS SMILEY | Guest: Harry Belafonte | PBS
Harry Belafonte Speaks
Harry Belafonte On His Close Friend Dorothy Dandrige, Hollywood's Treatment Of The Movie Red Tails
Harry Belafonte interview # 3 by Tomi Lindblom (2003) / Finland "George Bush not a man of honour"
Official Station Video: Is Harry Belafonte asleep during live TV interview?
Jay Z vs Harry Belafonte. Breaking Down Latest Beef. MSNBC
Harry Belafonte Valt In Slaap Tijdens Het Wachten Op Een Interview
Harry Belafonte Interview with Afropop's Banning Eyre--Part 1
August 05 1996 | Charlie Rose
Harry Belafonte Sleeps Through Interview
First Look: Roland Martin's Exclusive Interview With Actor/Humanitarian Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte Belafonte Original 1956 Remastered Full Album Original
Harry Belafonte My Lord What a Mornin' FULL LENGTH LP Free MP3 Download
What's My Line? - Harry Belafonte; Ray Milland [panel] (Nov 1, 1959)
Harry Belafonte - Mein Leben
Philanthropy in Action: Harry Belafonte
What's My Line? - Harry Belafonte (Nov 6, 1955)
What's My Line? - CA Governor Edmund Brown; Harry Belafonte; Peter Lind Hayes [panel] (Nov 16, 1958)
Het uur van de wolf; Het lied van Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte Regis Dialogue with Scott Foundas
Harry Belafonte in Sweden 1966
What's My Line? - Mort Sahl; Harry Belafonte [panel] (Jun 11, 1961)
Harry Belafonte London Q&A; for Sing Your Song the Movie [Director: Heri Mkocha]
Danny Glover speaks at gala honoring Harry Belafonte