Since You Went Away
1944
Actress/singer Dorothy Dandridge was Hollywood's first African-American superstar, the first Black performer ever nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Dandridge and her sister Vivian teamed up in the song-and-dance duo the Wonder Children as kids in Cleveland, Ohio. The family relocated to Los Angeles during the mid-'30s, and in 1937 Dandridge made her film debut in the Marx... Wikipedia