Curry had other ties to the movie industry, starting after she struck up a friendship with Nellie Crawford, who went by the ...

being an extra in a scene with Diana Ross in “Lady Sings the Blues” and being mentored by the first Black woman to ever sign a movie contract. Curry died last week at her home in Altadena as ...

being an extra in a scene with Diana Ross in “Lady Sings the Blues” and being mentored by the first Black woman to ever sign a movie contract. Dalyce Kelley holds up a picture of her ...

She settled in Los Angeles, where she never became a star but did rub shoulders with some of the elites of old Hollywood, including backing up singer Pearl Bailey, being an extra in a scene with Diana ...