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Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 2 – 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 ]
The 27th Academy Awards were held on March 30, 1955, ... Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American actress to receive a nomination for Best Actress.
In a 2007 review in The Guardian, Andrew Pulver rated the film as three out of five stars and said, "Underneath its obvious charms—slinky Dorothy Dandridge, brawny Harry Belafonte and a handful of memorable numbers relocated from Bizet's original—the 1954 film version of Oscar Hammerstein's all-black Broadway musical now feels like a relic ...
His first film role was in Bright Road (1953), in which he supported female lead Dorothy Dandridge. [62] The two subsequently starred in Otto Preminger's hit musical Carmen Jones (1954). Ironically, Belafonte's singing in the film was dubbed by an opera singer, as was Dandridge's, both voices being deemed unsuitable for their roles. [17] [62]
This was Dorothy Dandridge's "comeback" movie, as she hadn't made a film since 1954's Carmen Jones, in which she played the lead. In 1955, she had been offered supporting roles in The King and I and The Lieutenant Wore Skirts but Otto Preminger, Carmen Jones' director and her lover, advised her to turn down the roles. Dandridge was billed third ...
However, while filming Carmen Jones (1954), Preminger began an affair with the film's star, Dorothy Dandridge, which lasted four years. During that period he advised her on career matters, including an offer made to Dandridge for the featured role of Tuptim in The King and I (1956). Preminger advised her to turn it down, as he believed it ...
Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 [1] – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy , in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show , in which she played Geranium.
Confidential, November 1955, with cover stories on Mae West and Terry Moore. Following a highly-unflattering article about Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, an attempt was made to ban the magazine from sale in Cuba. [97] In the May 1955 issue of Confidential, "Doris Duke and Her African Prince" appeared.