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Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), a performance which also earned her a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress. Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she per…
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entertainment · American actress and singer (1922–1965) · television actor · singer · stage actor · film actor · dancer · actor · opera singer · musician · also Dorothy Dandridge, Dottie Mae, Miss D, The black bomshell, Dottie, Bessie Mae
Born 9 November 1922 · Died 8 September 1965 · Q229251
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2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via HBO Max
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2022· 2 entries
Yahoo: Halle Berry Pays Tribute to the 'Legendary' Dorothy Dandridge on Her 100th Birthday
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The Cheat Sheet: Halle Berry Got Rid of Her Dorothy Dandridge Dress Because She Thought It Was Haunted
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2020· 1 entry
Laura Harrier portrayed Camille Washington in the miniseries Hollywood
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “A Las Vegas hotel completely drained their pool because Black entertainer Dorothy Dandridge stuck her toe in the water.” Legend.
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2015· 1 entry
HELLO BEAUTIFUL: Dorothy Dandridge Life
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2003· 1 entry
Moviefone: Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003) - Where to Watch
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Smooth Operator”.
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Halle Berry produced and starred in the movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award
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1997· 1 entry
A tribute to Dandridge was aired on the talk show Charlie Rose, featuring biographer Donald Bogle and actors Ruby Dee and Cicely Tyson, who acknowledge Dandridge's contribution to the image of African Americans in Americ
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1983· 1 entry
Was recognized, posthumously, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1965· 3 entries
A private funeral service was held at the Little Chapel of the Flowers; Dandridge was cremated and her ashes interred in the Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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Died 1965-09-08.
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Attempted to revive her acting career
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1962· 2 entries
Dandridge was filmed with Alain Delon on the set of La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo, a Raoul Lévy-produced French-Italian film that was abandoned due to financial issues
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Amid financial setbacks and allegations of domestic violence
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1959· 2 entries
Dandridge starred in the low-budget British thriller Malaga, in which she played a European woman with an Italian name
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Dandridge was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and a Laurel Award for Porgy and Bess
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1958· 1 entry
Recorded a full-length album for Verve Records featuring Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, and Alvin Stoller (Catalogue #314 547-514 2) that remained unreleased in the vaults until a CD release in 1999
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1957· 3 entries
After a three-year absence from film acting, Dandridge agreed to appear in the film Island in the Sun as part of an ensemble cast, including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, and Stephen Boyd
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But in September she gave testimony in the criminal trial that further strengthened the prosecution's case
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Dandridge sued Confidential for libel over its article that described a scandalous incident that it claimed occurred in 1950
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1955· 4 entries
Dandridge became the first black performer to open at the Empire Room at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel
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Dandridge was a nominee along with Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Jane Wyman
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Dandridge signed a three-movie deal with 20th Century-Fox starting at $75,000 a film
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But was forced to have an abortion by the studio
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1954· 2 entries
Dorothy Dandridge became the first black woman featured on the cover of Life
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Earning $70,000 during its first week and $50,000 during its second
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1953· 1 entry
A talent search was conducted as 20th Century Fox began the process of casting an all-black musical film adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein II's 1943 Broadway musical Carmen Jones
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1951· 1 entry
Dandridge appeared as Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba in Tarzan's Peril, starring Lex Barker and Virginia Huston
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1950· 1 entry
Testified that racial segregation had confined her to her hotel during her nightclub engagement in Lake Tahoe
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1944· 1 entry
Dandridge starred on stage in "Sweet 'N Hot", a musical held at the Mayan theatre in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin Sr
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1941· 1 entry
Dandridge was a featured performer in Duke Ellington’s musical review “Jump for Joy
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1930· 1 entry
Dorothy attended McKinley Junior High School in Pasadena
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1922· 2 entries
Born 1922-11-09.
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In Cleveland, Ohio to entertainer Ruby (née Butler) and Cyril Dandridge
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