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African-American child actresses (114 P) Pages in category "African-American actresses" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 210 total.
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 for Carmen Jones (1954). [1] Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater.
Beulah is an American sitcom that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1953. The show is notable for being the first sitcom to star an African-American actress, for being ABC TV's first hit situation comedy, and the first hit TV sitcom without a laugh track. The show was controversial for its caricatures of ...
7 Born in the 1950s. 8 Born in the 1940s. ... Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; ... Yara Shahidi,actress and Harvard graduate ...
It’s especially relevant as we dive into the lives of some of the most famous older Black actresses, singers, writers and activists. ... Though her first big film role was in 1950, and several ...
Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 6, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1968–1980; 1983–1985).
In 1950, she won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for her performance opposite Julie Harris in the play The Member of the Wedding. Waters and Harris repeated their roles in the 1952 film version. In 1950, Waters was the first African-American actress to star in a television series, Beulah, which aired on ABC television from 1950 through ...
Vincent began her career in film in the early 1940s. After having made 50 films, she retired from that field when her second child was born. [6]She later became a successful television actress appearing in many programs throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.