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Based on a true story, this film chronicles the life of Dorothy Dandridge, the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Dandridge (Halle Berry) begins her career...
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a 1999 American biographical drama television film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes and Scott Abbott, based on the 1991 biography Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills. [1] Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1998, the film stars Halle Berry as actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge and ...
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PTV1. Based on a true story, this film chronicles the life of Dorothy Dandridge, the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Dandridge (Halle Berry) begins her career working as a nightclub singer before eventually breaking into Hollywood, where she meets her steadfast manager (Brent Spiner) and struggles against racism.
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Aug 21, 1999 · Introducing Dorothy Dandridge: Directed by Martha Coolidge. With Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé. Dorothy Dandridge's way to fame and fortune as a dancer, singer and actress.
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- 1999-08-21
Feb 5, 2021 · Based on a true story, the film chronicles the life of Dorothy Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Dandridge (Halle Berry) begins her career working as a nightclub singer before eventually breaking into Hollywood, where she meets her steadfast manager (Brent Spiner) and struggles against racism.
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge was a pet project for Halle Berry, who spent six years trying to get the biopic made. The result is a high quality, heartfelt tribute to the woman who became the first African-American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and in doing so blazed a path for many to follow. Through a convoluted framing device ...
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Mar 28, 2015 · He finds Dorothy Dandridge dead: on the bathroom door, nude. It is unclear exactly how she died: the investigators on the scene speculate that she may have died from a rare embolism (bits of bone that floated into her blood stream and blocked blood flow to her brain), or it was a suicide (a note previously written by Dandridge having been ...