Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (9 November 1922 – 8 September 1965 ) adalah seorang aktris dan penyanyi berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia merupakan bintang film Afrika-Amerika pertama yang dinominasikan untuk meraih Academy Award untuk kategori Aktris Terbaik melalui performanya di film Carmen Jones (1954).^[1]

Dorothy Dandridge
Dandridge dalam sebuah penampilan tahun 1962
Lahir	Dorothy Jean Dandridge 9 November 1922 Cleveland, Ohio, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	8 September 1965 (usia 42 tahun) West Hollywood, California, Amerika Serikat
Makam	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Pekerjaan	Aktris · penyanyi · penari
Tahun aktif	1933-1965
Suami/istri	Harold Nicholas (1942-1951) Jack Denison (1959-1962)
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (en)

Pada tahun 1959, Dandridge dinominasikan untuk meraih Golden Globe Award atas perannya di Porgy and Bess. Dia diperankan oleh Halle Berry dalam film biografi tentang dirinya, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). Dia telah dianugerahi bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[2]

Dia dilahirkan di Cleveland, Ohio. Dia berkarier di dunia film sejak tahun 1935.

Filmografi

Film

• Moment of Danger (1960) .... Gianna
• Porgy and Bess (1959) .... Bess
• The Decks Ran Red (1958) .... Mahia
• Tamango (1958) .... Aiché, Reiker's mistress
• Island in the Sun (1957) .... Margot Seaton
• Carmen Jones (1954) .... Carmen Jones
• Bright Road (1953) .... Jane Richards
• The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) .... Ann Carpenter
• Tarzan's Peril (1951) .... Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba
• Atlantic City (1944) .... Singer
• Hit Parade of 1943 (1943) .... Count Basie Band Singer
• Drums of the Congo (1942) .... Princess Malimi
• Bahama Passage (1941) .... Thalia
• Sundown (1941) (uncredited) .... Kipsang's Bride
• Sun Valley Serenade (1941) .... Specialty act
• Lady from Louisiana (1941) .... Felice
• Four Shall Die (1940) .... Helen Fielding
• The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) (sebagai The Dandridge Sisters) .... Member of the Dandridge Sisters

Televisi

• Cain's Hundred .... Norma Sherman (Blues for a Junkman, 1962)
• Ford Star Jubilee (You're the Top, 1956)

Peranan tidak dikritik

• Ebony Parade (1947) (as Dorothy Daindridge)
• Since You Went Away (1944) .... Black Officer's Wife in Train Station
• Happy Go Lucky (1943) .... Chorine
• Lucky Jordan (1942) .... Hollyhock School Maid
• Night in New Orleans (1942) .... Sal, Shadrach's Girl
• The Night Before the Divorce (1942) .... Maid
• Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) .... Congoroo
• Sundown (1941) .... Kipsang's Bride
• Irene (1940) .... The Dandridge Sisters
• Going Places (1938) .... Member of Singing/Dancing Trio at Party
• Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938) .... One of the Dandridge Sisters, Vocal Trio
• It Can't Last Forever (1937) .... Dandridge Sisters Act
• A Day at the Races (1937) .... Performer in the 'All God's Children Got Rhythm' number
• Easy to Take (1936) .... The Dandridge Sisters

Pranala luar

• Biographical sketch Diarsipkan 2010-12-03 di Wayback Machine.
• Findadeath Diarsipkan 2007-11-18 di Wayback Machine.
• Dorothy Dandridge di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Dorothy Dandridge's Gravesite

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