Dorothy Dandridge

Acting

Dorothy Dandridge

Born 1922-11-09 Cleveland, Ohio, USA 51 films

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 for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appe…

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Filmography

51 films
The Murder Men poster

Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitatio…

The Murder Men

★ 10.0 1961

Porgy and Bess poster

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home…

Porgy and Bess

★ 6.3 1959

Tamango poster

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African sla…

Tamango

★ 7.0 1958

Carmen Jones poster

In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jon…

Carmen Jones

★ 6.2 1954