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Author : Earl Mills
language : en
Publisher: Holloway House Publishing
Release Date : 1997-07
Dorothy Dandridge written by Earl Mills and has been published by Holloway House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1955 the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge became the first ever African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Performance. In show business since the age of three years, she became Hollywood's first major black female star with the 1954 release of Carmen Jones in which she co-starred with Harry Belafonte. Other major roles were to follow, but her downfall was her terrible taste in men. She married two of them, both treated her badly, the last leaving her nearly bankrupt. Then tragedy struck in the form of her mysterious death which still puzzles many.
Dorothy Dandridge Singer Actress
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Author : DeAnn Herringshaw
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Dorothy Dandridge Singer Actress written by DeAnn Herringshaw and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title examines the remarkable life of Dorothy Dandridge. Readers will learn about Dandridge’s family background, childhood, education, and groundbreaking work as an actress who broke down racial barriers. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Dorothy Dandridge
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Author : Donald Bogle
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Dorothy Dandridge written by Donald Bogle and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer—the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award—who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement—a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. “An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long-ignored film star and chanteuse. . . . Bogle has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era in Hollywood and passionately documented the contribution of one of its most dazzling and complex performers."—New York Times Book Review In the segregated world of 1950s America, few celebrities were as talented, beautiful, glamorous, and ultimately influential as Dorothy Dandridge. Universally admired, she was Hollywood's first full-fledged Black movie star. Film historian Donald Bogle offers a panoramic portrait of Dorothy Dandridge’s extraordinary and ultimately tragic life and career, from her early years as a child performer in Cleveland, to her rise as a nightclub headliner and movie star, to her heartbreaking death at 42. Bogle reveals how this exceptionally talented and intensely ambitious entertainer broke down racial barriers by integrating some of America's hottest nightclubs and broke through Tinseltown’s glass ceiling. Along with her smash appearances at venues such as Harlem’s famed Cotton Club, Dorothy starred in numerous films, making history with her role in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, playing opposite Harry Belafonte. Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress—the first Oscar nod for a woman of color. But Dorothy’s wealth, fame, and success masked a reality fraught with contradiction and illusion. Struggling to find good roles professionally, uncomfortable with her image as a sex goddess, coping with the aftermath of two unhappy marriages and a string of unfulfilling affairs, and overwhelmed with guilt for her disabled daughter, Dorothy found herself emotionally and financially bankrupt—despair that ended in her untimely death. Woven from extensive research and unique interviews, as magnetic as the woman at its heart, Dorothy Dandridge captures this dazzling entertainer in all her complexity: her strength and vulnerability, her joy and her pain, her trials and her triumphs.
Everything And Nothing
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Author : Dorothy Dandridge
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1970
Everything And Nothing written by Dorothy Dandridge and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Memoir of America's first Black movie star, Dorothy Dandridge, and her rise from a shanty town to stardom and heartbreak in a segregated society.
Dorothy Dandridge
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Author : Earl Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970-01-01
Dorothy Dandridge written by Earl Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-01-01 with African American actresses categories.
Dorothy Dandridge
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Author : Earl Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Dorothy Dandridge written by Earl Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African American motion picture actors and actresses categories.
A biography of the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Oscar, written by her former manager, discusses her stuggle to succeed in an all-white profession and her turbulent personal life.
Dorothy Dandridge
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-02-07
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*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading "If I were white, I could capture the world." - Dorothy Dandridge The bright summer sun shined blissfully on a secluded valley tucked into the romantic Costa del Sol in southern Spain. Water bubbled friskily over a rocky streambed as trees swayed in the gentle tropical breeze and dappled the banks in playful shadows. A closer look reveals a man and a woman entwined on the rocky shore in an intimate embrace. The man trembles with longing as he bends over the woman, his parted lips just inches from hers. She eagerly folds her arms around him, her fingertips passionately digging into the skin on his back as she draws him closer.Suddenly, a director's voice rings out, "Cut!" The man was white. The woman was black, and in Hollywood in 1959, that was still taboo. The steamy scene was being shot for the film Malaga, and the actress in the scene, Dorothy Dandridge, had just shared Hollywood's controversial first interracial kiss on screen a year earlier. Despite this distinction and other more notable accomplishments, many people today are not familiar with the groundbreaking actress, even as she was among the most charismatic and beautiful actresses of the era. Her alluring nightclub acts set pulses pounding across the globe, and she was Hollywood's first black leading actress. Sadly, all of it came at a high price. Dorothy bore the scars of a tormented childhood, endured the fallout from multiple failed relationships, suffered professional and financial setbacks, and battled ongoing alcohol and prescription drug abuse. Throughout all that, racism was the most tenacious demon she had to fight, because Dorothy came of age in an era when society and the entertainment world largely held to demeaning racial stereotypes. Though she appeared in 15 movies, her career was overshadowed by the work of contemporary white screen legends such as Grace Kelly, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe. Dorothy understandably believed she could have become so much more if she had been born white. As she poignantly put it, "What was I? That outdated 'tragic mulatto' of earlier fiction? Oddly enough, there remains some validity in this concept, in a society not yet integrated. I wasn't fully accepted in either world, black or white. I was too light to satisfy Negroes, not light enough to secure the screen work, the roles, the marriage status available to a white woman." Nevertheless, Dorothy made great strides for the black community and blazed trails for minority entertainers. She confronted racial stereotypes, overcame prevailing cinematic conventions, and set attendance records throughout her entire career. She attained genuine stardom as the lead in the 1954 film Carmen Jones, and her portrayal earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, the first such Oscar nod for a black woman. Dorothy Dandridge: The Life and Legacy of One of Hollywood's First Successful Black Actresses profiles the arduous rise and abrupt fall of Dorothy's radiant stardom. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Dorothy Dandridge like never before.
Ebony
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language : en
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Release Date : 1962-06
Ebony written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962-06 with categories.
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Yesterday Came Too Soon In Color
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Author : Jamal Williams
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Yesterday Came Too Soon In Color written by Jamal Williams and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with categories.
This book is about the much produced and award winning play by the author. It is a fictitious one-woman performance about her last night alive and the memories that suddenly come streaming into her mind because the lone reporter in her dressing room that fateful night reminds her so much about her estranged only sister. This story takes on a ride through her rise to fame to her personal life failures and successes, and finally to the place of desperation her life has come to at the age of 42. Though she is depressed in her Velvet Club dressing room, she relays her biographical story with great flair and sophistication as only Dorothy Dandridge can.
Yesterday Came Too Soon
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Author : Jamal Williams
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-02
Yesterday Came Too Soon written by Jamal Williams and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with categories.
This is an award winning play about Dorothy Dandridge. It has been produced all over the country and is considered one of the most complete rendition of the tragic star and icon. It is a fictional telling of Dorothy's last day alive. The play takes place in her backstage dressing room at the Velvet Club in Los Angeles where she comes face to face with her mortality as well as defining moments in her life and career. It is a solo piece that is a challenge for an accomplished actor. The story tells the story that just because one is considered a famous, rich, and beautiful star it doesn't always lead to a filling life.