Previous Hollywood starlet, Dorothy Dandridge, may do all of it. Dandridge was a drop-dead attractive triple risk, making historical past when she grew to become the primary African-American to be nominated for the Greatest Actress Academy Award.
Dandridge started her profession dancing along with her sister, Vivian, as “The Marvel Kids.” The group, renamed “The Dandridge Sisters” in 1934, performed widespread New York golf equipment, The Cotton Membership and The Apollo, and made small on-screen appearances in a number of movies.
Dandridge landed minor movie roles within the Nineteen Forties and continued to carry out as a singer at nightclubs. In 1951, Dandridge started to select up momentum performing stay, making a rave opening at Hollywood’s Mocombo nightclub (the largest opening in its historical past). Dandridge returned to the Mocombo in 1952 and caught the eye of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer agent who recommended Dandridge be forged as a membership singer within the 1953 movie, Stays to be Seen. Later that yr, Dandridge landed her first starring function in Vivid Street with Harry Belafonte.
It was Dandridge’s function within the all-black musical movie adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein’s Broadway present, Carmen Jones, that earned her an Academy Award Nomination for Greatest Actress. After the success of the movie (and her Oscar nomination), Dandridge’s star skyrocketed, and she or he signed a three-movie take care of twentieth Century Fox.
In 1955, Dandridge carried out on the prestigious Empire Room in New York’s Waldorf-Astoria lodge, turning into the primary black performer to play there and opening the door for quite a few different black artists, comparable to Lena Horne and Rely Basie.
Dandridge continued to behave and carry out by way of the Fifties, however in 1965, along with her profession starting to dwindle, Dandridge handed away after unintentionally overdosing on the antidepressant, Tofranil.
1999, Halle Berry portrayed Dandridge within the biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, incomes Berry an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award, and when Berry grew to become the primary African-American to win the Greatest Actress Academy Award in 2001 (for Monster’s Ball), she devoted it to Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carroll.
I discovered so many lovely GIFs of Dorothy, so keep tuned for PART 2 later at the moment! xoxo
