Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge
	Dandridge dalam sebuah penampilan tahun 1962
Lahir	Dorothy Jean Dandridge; 9 November 1922; Cleveland, Ohio, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	8 September 1965 (usia 42 tahun); West Hollywood, California, Amerika Serikat
Makam	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Pekerjaan	Aktris · penyanyi · penari
Tahun aktif	1933-1965
Suami/istri	Harold Nicholas (1942-1951) ; Jack Denison (1959-1962)
	star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (en) ;

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (9 November 1922 – 8 September 1965) adalah seorang aktris dan penyanyi berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia merupakan bintang film Afrika-Amerika pertama yang dinominasikan untuk meraih Academy Award untuk kategori Aktris Terbaik melalui performanya di film Carmen Jones (1954).^[1]

Pada tahun 1959, Dandridge dinominasikan untuk meraih Golden Globe Award atas perannya di Porgy and Bess. Dia diperankan oleh Halle Berry dalam film biografi tentang dirinya, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). Dia telah dianugerahi bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[2]

Dia dilahirkan di Cleveland, Ohio. Dia berkarier di dunia film sejak tahun 1935.

Filmografi

Film

Moment of Danger (1960) .... Gianna
Porgy and Bess (1959) .... Bess
The Decks Ran Red (1958) .... Mahia
Tamango (1958) .... Aiché, Reiker's mistress
Island in the Sun (1957) .... Margot Seaton
Carmen Jones (1954) .... Carmen Jones
Bright Road (1953) .... Jane Richards
The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) .... Ann Carpenter
Tarzan's Peril (1951) .... Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba
Atlantic City (1944) .... Singer
Hit Parade of 1943 (1943) .... Count Basie Band Singer
Drums of the Congo (1942) .... Princess Malimi
Bahama Passage (1941) .... Thalia
Sundown (1941) (uncredited) .... Kipsang's Bride
Sun Valley Serenade (1941) .... Specialty act
Lady from Louisiana (1941) .... Felice
Four Shall Die (1940) .... Helen Fielding
The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) (sebagai The Dandridge Sisters) .... Member of the Dandridge Sisters

Televisi

Cain's Hundred .... Norma Sherman (Blues for a Junkman, 1962)
Ford Star Jubilee (You're the Top, 1956)

Peranan tidak dikritik

Ebony Parade (1947) (as Dorothy Daindridge)
Since You Went Away (1944) .... Black Officer's Wife in Train Station
Happy Go Lucky (1943) .... Chorine
Lucky Jordan (1942) .... Hollyhock School Maid
Night in New Orleans (1942) .... Sal, Shadrach's Girl
The Night Before the Divorce (1942) .... Maid
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) .... Congoroo
Sundown (1941) .... Kipsang's Bride
Irene (1940) .... The Dandridge Sisters
Going Places (1938) .... Member of Singing/Dancing Trio at Party
Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938) .... One of the Dandridge Sisters, Vocal Trio
It Can't Last Forever (1937) .... Dandridge Sisters Act
A Day at the Races (1937) .... Performer in the 'All God's Children Got Rhythm' number
Easy to Take (1936) .... The Dandridge Sisters

Pranala luar

Biographical sketch Diarsipkan 2010-12-03 di Wayback Machine.
Findadeath Diarsipkan 2007-11-18 di Wayback Machine.
Dorothy Dandridge di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
Dorothy Dandridge's Gravesite

Artikel bertopik biografi Amerika Serikat ini adalah sebuah rintisan. Anda dapat membantu Wikipedia dengan mengembangkannya.

^ Potter, Joan (2002). African American Firsts: Famous Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Kensington Books. hlm. 81. ISBN 0-7582-0243-1.
^ McCann, Bob (2010). Encyclopedia of black actresses in film and television. McFarland & Company. hlm. 90. ISBN 978-0-7864-5804-2.

[1] Potter, Joan (2002). African American Firsts: Famous Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Kensington Books. hlm. 81. ISBN 0-7582-0243-1.

[2] McCann, Bob (2010). Encyclopedia of black actresses in film and television. McFarland & Company. hlm. 90. ISBN 978-0-7864-5804-2.

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