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.

Halle Berry is reflecting on being the first — and only — Black woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars. Related: Dorothy Dandridge and the burden of being first Black Best Actress Oscar ...

Local Columbus station WBNS 10TV spoke with Molly Kreuzman, program director for the Ohio Goes to the Movies initiative, about honoring the great actor and also receiving his daughter with Joanne ...