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Awards and Nominations
Golden Globe
Actress in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy
Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Foreign Actress
Nominated
Golden Globe
Actress in a Leading Role - Musical or Comedy
Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Foreign Actress
Nominated
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...