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...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a 1999 American biographical drama television film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes and Scott...

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...

(1961–1962), Dandridge played the maid on the television version of Father of the Bride. In 1955, Dandridge and her business partner Dorothy Foster bought...

film featuring an African American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The...

California, and ended in 1940, comprising the sisters Vivian and Dorothy Dandridge together with their friend Etta Jones (not the more well-known jazz...

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...

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...

Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge in the HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). She was further Emmy-nominated for...

including James Mason, Harry Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, Michael Rennie, Stephen Boyd, Patricia Owens, John Justin, Diana...

era. Harrier primarily drew inspiration for her role from actress Dorothy Dandridge, and to a lesser extent from singer and actress Lena Horne. To prepare...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (nominated) 2000: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie – Introducing Dorothy Dandridge...

singer and dancer Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), actress and singer Ruby Dandridge (1900–1987), actress, mother of Dorothy Dandridge Mickey Daniels (1914–1970)...

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...

Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, and Stuart Whitman. The film received generally poor reviews, but received wide viewership for Dorothy Dandridge's...

(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...

Costello (1903–1979) Jeanne Crain (1925–2003) Viola Dana (1897–1987) Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965) Bebe Daniels (1901–1971) Linda Darnell (1923–1965) Danielle...

for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Emmy Award, Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge DGA Award, Best...

"Chattanooga Choo Choo" tap dance number performed by Harold, Fayard, and Dorothy Dandridge. Fred Astaire told the brothers that their dazzling footwork, leaps...

actress Dorothy Dandridge (1922–1965), American actress Dorothy Davenport (1895–1977), American actress Dorothy Dell (1915–1934), American actress Dorothy Devore...

Rhimes received an assignment to co-write the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), which earned numerous awards for its star, Halle Berry. In...

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...

Walker, Dorothy Dandridge, Angela Clarke, and Peter M. Thompson. Thomas Gomez as Coach Abe Saperstein Bill Walker as Prof. Turner Dorothy Dandridge as Ann...

sang "Sweeter than Sweet" with Calloway. Dorothy Dandridge performed at the club while part of the Dandridge Sisters, and Coleman Hawkins and Don Redman...

song by Sarah Vaughan released in 1959 "Smooth Operator", a song by Dorothy Dandridge recorded in 1958 but not released until 1999 A smoothing operator...

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...

Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Jules Buck, Richard Conte, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Dandridge, Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, Melvyn Douglas, Henry Fonda, John...

blacklisted American director who exiled himself to Europe. The film stars Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Alex Cressan and Jean Servais. Based on a short story...

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...

Geppetto and the role of Dorothy Dandridge's manager and confidant, Earl Mills, in the HBO production Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.[citation needed] In 2005...