Marpessa Dawn (1964)
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2020
- Marpessa DAWN, the heroine of the 1959 film Black Orpheus, sings a Brazilian song accompanied by a group (unidentified) from the Ina.fr archive.
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Marpessa Dawn (January 3, 1934 - August 25, 2008), also known as Gypsy Marpessa Dawn Menor, was an American born French actress, as well as a singer and dancer. She is best remembered for her role in the film Black Orpheus (1959).
Born on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of African-American and Filipino heritage, she worked as a laboratory technician in New York before migrating to Europe as a teenager.
She began acting in England, with some minor TV roles. Then, in 1953, she relocated to France and while occasionally working as a governess also sang and danced in nightclubs, where she met director Marcel Camus. At the age of 24 she won the role of "Eurydice" in his film Black Orpheus. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival[4] and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[5] She married Camus, but divorced him soon after and married Belgian actor Georges-Eriv Vander-Elst, whom she met when they appeared together in a play at the American Centre in Paris. They had a civil ceremony held in secrecy. Considered a great beauty,[6] she was featured in November 1959 by Ebony and has been hailed as "one of Ebony magazine's prettiest cover girls, along with the likes of Dorothy Dandridge, Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams and Lena Horne".
Dawn remained in Europe, working in French films and television. She also had several theatrical parts, including a starring role in Chérie Noire, a highly successful stage comedy which played for seven years, touring France, Belgium, Switzerland, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco,[8] and Le Jardin des délices (The Garden of Delights), by Fernando Arrabal, with Delphine Seyrig, 1969. Her subsequent career, however, was much less successful. She appeared in a 2005 documentary about Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the original play from which Black Orpheus was adapted. She and her fellow lead from that film, Brazilian actor Breno Mello, died just 42 days apart in 2008, both from heart attacks. She was 74 years old at the time of her death in Paris and left five children and four grandchildren. - Wikipedia
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Black Orpheus..
Marpessa Dawn..She was Eurydice..I love how she walks to the stage..So girlie and feminine..
I love that movie.
And fully clothed too........
Yes
@@majornija 8
You beat me to this comnent. I've watched Black Orpheus many times.
I clicked on this, because this woman looks stunningly beautiful, and her name.
I never came across the name Marpessa til today. Such a stunning name
@@CHIEFROCKANDACROWNCHAKRA EXACTLY!😄😄
Chief Alchemy in
Same
Me too
She’s beautiful...
This video is a true gem, & she was born straight outta the USA, born on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She’s gorgeous!
I hear you and feel you! It might be more accurate, however, to say that she was gorgeous. Marpessa Dawn died in 2008. She will be forever gorgeous in my heart.
The sixties fashion is absolutely STUNNING, PURE CLASS!!!
Never heard of her until today..
Boy, she was awesome.
Like many Black actresses, singers of that time, she should have had a huge Hollywood career just based on her talent alone.
Marpessa Dawn was great in Black Orpheus, a talented actress. RIP.
Black Orpheus is a fantastic film.
Caleb Powell! Yes! Well deserved Oscar🌟
Black Orpheus is my favorite movie. I recently purchased the 2010 version on DVD which has the voiceovers done by Caribbean actors so the voices now match the faces. I got tired of the Doris Day sounding voiceovers for the earlier versions of Black Orpheus.
I’ve only ever watched it, like a few dozen times, in the original Brazilian Portuguese with subtitles! That’s the best! It’s my favorite movie of all time!
@@artwillvideos Mine too but when I get tired of reading the subtitles I like that the 2010 version of Black Orpheus has the voiceovers done by Caribbean actors so the voices match the faces.
@@yansatoussaint2266 Oh, I had no idea of that version! I’ll have to find it and add it to my collection! Thanks 🙏🏽, Yansa!
I've never heard of this lady. She's talented.
You must not like international classic movies, she was in one of the most famous… Orpheu Negro
Simply beautiful, great voice and a beautiful Woman.
She's most famous for staring in Black Orpheus, a musical film in which she never sang. This was a treat.
In that film she never sang, but she danced up a storm and was stunningly beautiful.
She is pretty. I remember her from Black Orpheus.
I love how gorgeous these movies used to be
i love her.. she's singing brazilian music there ❤️
She was soo beautiful. Natural beauty.. I never heard of her. I would like to know more about her. She can sing too.
Beautiful, gifted, and talented. #GreatUpload
This Woman was the Most Beautiful Thing On Earth in her Time.
Halle Berry could portray her in a movie! 👀Their resemblance is amazing!!
Agree
Yes
Do you have the casting bug? I certainly do. I'm thinking Wesley Snipes could play Otis Redding. What do you think?
I agree!
Maybe actress Sharon Leal
She reminds me of Josephine Baker (light voice) and Eartha Kitt persona.
I only understood a couple of words, but man, this made me nostalgic for some reason. ☺️
The song is called 'Recado'. Here are the lyrics: www.letras.mus.br/maysa/1460122/
Such a pretty voice
Wow she was stunning
In any language, the face and voice of a heavenly angel.
If you have never seen black Orpheus I suggest it highly it will be a treat for the eyes and heart ms. Dawn is one of its bright stars
Yes Lordt and Lourdes de Oliveira who played the femme fatale Mira.
@@yansatoussaint2266 yes I agree she made the film exciting with her performance
She defines beauty in every sense.
Such a pretty lady❤🌸
The music that she's singing is "Recado" by the Brazilian singer Maysa
She’s absolutely beautiful I just read her bio on Wikipedia and came to find her on CZcams.
She was gorgeous even in her older age
What a beauty.😃
That's all woman right there
Beautiful woman
STUNNING. VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE
Toni Braxton looks like her.. gorgeous.
Come on...
@Knowledge I NO. Put your glasses on
Caucasians think all Black people look alike
Toni mixed with Halle Berry.
Yes...The Remarkable Marpessa Gyspy Dawn..African American and Filipino actress/Dancer like actress Sharon Leal( Why did I get Married 2). She left Philly for Europe (Follow her dreams)at 14 took a job as a governess(Nanny) and began performing in Night clubs and Acting. Due to Racism like so many Black Performers during that time. She danced for Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe. Famous most Notably for Black Orpheus playing the Beautiful. Euridice. She looks like Halle Berry / Phylica Rishad.
MemoGrafix she passed in 2008 , still beautiful in my opinion.
@@MemoGrafix LOL...Your Funny. She was beautiful then and until her death in 2005. Careful a Jealous Heart ages you Faster than any Genetic Material.Yes there are Black Filipinos called the Aeta People..Don't Bother thanking me.
OMGosh where did you find this?! I remember learning about her years ago! Such a beautiful! Thank you!!
This beautiful lady just popped up and Idk who she is but I'm glad that it did☺️
God is great, put a Beautiful color woman on this EARTH
Para sempre Euridice!!! Sempre bela!
Thank you for uploading this. I've never seen her outside of Black Orpheus :)
LOVE BLACK ORPHEUS ❤❤❤❤🥰
I'm just learning about this beautiful stunning black Queen 👑💖 Mrs Dawn so bright 🌅 & Very pose, intelligent 🧠, very modest glamour girl 👠💅🎬 Reminds me of myself!!!💯 Back then they didn't give our Black Americans the respect & recognize them for there talent but they stayed strong 💪🏽💖 & they didn't need an award to let them know how great they were they already knew 💯🙌
Applause!!!!!!
For too many years we have had to go overseas and anywhere else to get receive recognition and dollars lots of dollars, just saying...
A.T. Oliver well don't u think it's up to us to create our own Wall Street here in America as our ancestors have before and even then we didn't discriminate against whom we did business with just had to do mostly amongst ourselves😐.
Thats why I work in the middle east now
@@paulw1570 doing what...
Paul are you a CZcams troll 😂👀👀🌐😃😅🤔🧐😞😡😠😤🤬👁️👁️
Yep
kkk é meio engraçado ela cantando, da um charme tlg
mt linda msm
How could anybody think black people are lazy when we exceed in almost everything we pursue.
Take me some online physics and computer course get myself into mad scientist mode and build myself a time machine...the rest will be history 😕 again and again with that extraordinary woman. Loved that woman since I was five years old lol that is over a half century of love.
This song is going to be stuck in my head..Class
Thank you!!!!!!!!!! I've learned something new today.. Your channel has me feeling some kinds of way.. " Intelligent " I've just researched and found out.. I've got some more work to do. You keep me on my toes. Thanks again. Much, much Respect. Peace always.
Beautiful 💕
Muito linda
Reminds me of channel 34 back in day showing vintage spanish movies and entertainment,soap opera's i enjoy what i could understand the u channel stations of calif.
SHE WAS ONE OF DEAREST FRIENDS
Perty lady!
Her walk 😍😍😍
WOW !
Muito bom
shes pretty
❤
If they ever did a movie about her Hallie berry would have been a perfect fit for her.
I don't understand the criticism
over Marpessa Dawn trying to
sound like a European singer.
Brazilian (and Cuban) music places
heavy emphasis on African rhythm.
That is due to being of African origin.
If anything, the swaying white band
members were trying to get their black
on.
Do you have any other foreign films to share with us? Black Orpheus is a well known classic, but there are many other foreign films the American film goer is not familiar with. Continue to teach the people as you reach the people.
This is not from the film.
She was born in Pittsburgh, PA. Just like Lena Horne.
Lena was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Goddess
😍🤩 💐
Didn't know she was afro Filipina.
She’s actually African American (mother) and (her father) was Pilipino.
attractive lady... beautiful
Hally Berry should play her
Butterfly
I want to be there
Badddd
Im in love, How do I find this song?
The song name is "Recado" by the Brazilian singer Maysa
@@pavel7700 Thanks, but her version sounds much better.
Wow she has Filipino heritage
Maybe
Can anyone translate? 😃
Please, someone knows the name of the song?
recado bossa nova djalma ferreira
@@williamharrison1080thank you
Her Portuguese was good.
Whats the song she's singing tho?
Recado.
So, she spesaks english,french and...portuguese?
i heard she didn't speak Portuguese
A mix of Vanity and Aaliyah
Halle Berry looks like her.
Bloody hell what a racket😖
1st
out of key