| Description |
xxiv, 613 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-584) and index. |
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Filmography: pages 585-589. |
| Contents |
Cleveland -- Hollywood girlhood -- Dandridge sisters -- Career, courtship, and marriage -- Lynn -- Career thrust -- Rising -- Saloons -- Making Carmen -- Stardom -- Peaking -- Making Porgy -- Hoping -- Collapse -- Lonely days, long night, last rites. |
| Summary |
A biography of Dorothy Dandridge, leading lady in the successful 1950s movie, Carmen Jones. The first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar--she lost to Grace Kelly of The Country Girl--Dandridge also starred in the controversial film, Island in the Sun, Hollywood's try at a black-white romance without anyone actually kissing. |
| Subject |
Dandridge, Dorothy, 1922-1965.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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African American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
1567430341 |
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