Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated...
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a 1999 American biographical drama television film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes and Scott...
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sister of actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge and the daughter of actress Ruby Dandridge. Dandridge was a member of the Dandridge Sisters musical group, along...
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film featuring an African American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The...
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Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best...
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California, and ended in 1940, comprising the sisters Vivian and Dorothy Dandridge together with their friend Etta Jones (not the more well-known jazz...
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film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles. It is based on the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess...
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Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge in the HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). She was further Emmy-nominated for...
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Halle Berry's best friend in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and had a brief role in Serenity, the movie conclusion of the TV...
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including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, Michael Rennie, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, John Justin, Diana...
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(1994) and Bulworth (1998) as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe...
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"Chattanooga Choo Choo" tap dance number performed by Harold, Fayard, and Dorothy Dandridge. Fred Astaire told the brothers that their dazzling footwork, leaps...
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Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, and Stuart Whitman. The film received generally poor reviews, but received wide viewership for Dorothy Dandridge's...
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (nominated) 2000: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie – Introducing Dorothy Dandridge...
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singer and dancer Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), actress and singer Ruby Dandridge (1900–1987), actress, mother of Dorothy Dandridge Mickey Daniels (1914–1970)...
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Gerald Mayer and featuring a nearly all-black cast, the film stars Dorothy Dandridge as an idealistic first-year elementary school teacher trying to communicate...
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co-producer and director of Oscar's Black Odyssey, co-producer of Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty, and co-producer of TV in Black: The First 50...
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include Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Dorothy Kilgallen, Malcolm Lowry, Edie Sedgwick and Kenneth Williams. Dorothy Dandridge died of either an overdose or an...
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Costello (1903–1979) Jeanne Crain (1925–2003) Viola Dana (1897–1987) Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965) Bebe Daniels (1901–1971) Linda Darnell (1923–1965) Danielle...
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Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Jules Buck, Richard Conte, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Dandridge, Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, Melvyn Douglas, Henry Fonda, John...
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actress Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), American actress Dorothy Davenport (1895–1977), American actress Dorothy Dell (1915–1934), American actress Dorothy Devore...
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Rhimes received an assignment to co-write the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), which earned numerous awards for its star, Halle Berry. In...
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Geppetto and the role of Dorothy Dandridge's manager and confidant, Earl Mills, in the HBO production Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.[citation needed] In 2005...
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The Electric Lady (redirect from Dorothy Dandridge Eyes)
Joseph II Irvin Parker Jr. Deep Cotton Robinson GianArthur 4:08 18. "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes" (featuring Esperanza Spalding) Robinson Irvin III GianArthur...
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Walker, Dorothy Dandridge, Angela Clarke, and Peter M. Thompson. Thomas Gomez as Coach Abe Saperstein Bill Walker as Prof. Turner Dorothy Dandridge as Ann...
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Martha Washington (redirect from Martha Dandridge Custis Washington)
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, who was the first president of the United States...
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1962) is a 1961 film starring Peter Mark Richman, James Coburn, and Dorothy Dandridge. Norma Sherman, is a night-club singer and addict who, upon being...
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sang "Sweeter than Sweet" with Calloway. Dorothy Dandridge performed at the club while part of the Dandridge Sisters, and Coleman Hawkins and Don Redman...
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in "I Am the Night—Color Me Black". In 1962, Dixon co-starred with Dorothy Dandridge in the "Blues for a Junkman" episode of Cain's Hundred; it was the...
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for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Emmy Award, Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge DGA Award, Best...
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