Julie Newmar What Dorothy Dandridge accomplished was extraordinary. Her role in 1954’s Carmen Jones was unlike anything given to a Black actress at the time: a sexy, sexual, headstrong ...

Berry played Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, in the 1999 biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Dorothy Dandridge, whose career and life ... American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Dandridge blazed a trail for generations of performers who followed her.

Written by a then-unknown Shonda Rhimes, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, rather serendipitously, brought Berry the kind of fame denied to Dandridge. She snatched up every Best Actress trophy for ...

DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY (9 Nov. 1923-8 Sept. 1965), Cleveland-born black nightclub entertainer and movie actress, who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination in 1954, was influenced by her mother, Ruby, a ...

Keke Palmer is wearing a Vera Wang black and white look to the 2025 Met Gala — and she says the look is inspired by Dorothy Dandridge because of 'all the doors that she's opened for us with fashion ...

Halle Berry is celebrating Dorothy Dandridge's 100th birthday. Berry shared a tweet that included a side-by-side of a young Dandridge and herself when she portrayed the trailblazing actress in the ...