When people think about the great, doomed female star of the 1950s, the first person who generally comes to mind, understandably enough, is Marilyn Monroe. Yet her friend, the equally doomed actress ...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a biographical drama TV movie inspired by the biography Dorothy Dandridge written by Earl Mills. Martha Coolidge directed the film, and Scott Abbott and Shonda Rhimes ...

The Best Blacktresses is a weekly, seven-part series dedicated to the 13 Black women and their 14 performances (shout-out to two-time nominee Viola Davis) nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role ...

Berry played Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, in the 1999 biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dorothy Dandridge was one of the great Hollywood starlets of the 1930s-1950s. As a black American ...

Dorothy Dandridge accomplished many things in her short life; she was the first Black woman nominated for the best-actress Oscar and the first Black woman on the cover of Life magazine. But she was ...

Axelrod Performing Arts Center announced the premiere of That’s Love! The Dorothy Dandridge Musical, starring Tony, Emmy, and ...

Wanda Ray Willis is to bring Dorothy Dandridge to life this weekend in a one-woman musical that she wrote and stars in. The legendary actress, singer and dancer was the first African-American to ...

Dorothy Dandridge LLC and The N’Kenge Foundation recently presented two sold-out, invite-only readings of SPOTLIGHT! The Dorothy Dandridge Musical at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City.