Today’s celebration of #BlackBeauty belongs to #TamaraDobson; the tall, glamorous model-turned-actress best remembered for playing the title roles in the blaxploitation films #CleopatraJones (1973) and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975). Like most other #blaxploitation leading players, she achieved quick stardom during the era’s heyday, but was not able to establish career roots for success in the post-blaxploitation period. Stunning and 6’2” tall (cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest leading lady in films), and unafraid to maximize her height with a huge Afro, she added to her image of the commanding Black woman in the age of Black Power ✊🏾 with a distinctive wardrobe influenced by her fashion model background and marked by the liberal use of fur. @cosmopolitan called her “the Gorgeous Skyscraper” worthy of the cult status that would later be hers. Isn’t she lovely? (at Joy University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLINt7Gh5i_/?igshid=o9cnmlbji2fh
