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 ...

Dorothy Dandridge could do it all: sing, act, dance. And her talent elevated her to the highest ranks of fame. But despite her skills and becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for the Best ...

Halle Berry is celebrating Dorothy Dandridge's 100th birthday. Berry shared a tweet that included a side-by-side of a young Dandridge and herself when she portrayed the trailblazing actress in the ...

Dorothy Dandridge was one of the great Hollywood starlets of the 1930s-1950s. As a black American actress, she made history for things like being the first black actress to receive an Academy Award in ...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge was a 1999 movie based on the biographical Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Millis. Directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes, the movie starred Halle Berry as ...

Producers N'Kenge and Richard Bell will present a private reading of "Dorothy Dandridge: The Musical" the true story of Hollywood's very first African- American movie star, with book & lyrics by ...

Dorothy Dandridge's life as a theatrical triple threat was one of great volatility and struggle, from her upbringing to her public perception as a black woman who preferred liaisons with powerful ...

The marker of a true icon is someone whose influence spans generations far beyond their own. When it comes to Dorothy Dandridge, we think it's safe to say that she embodies that definition to the ...

In the 1950s, Dorothy Dandridge was one performer who paved the way for subsequent generations of black actresses. Dandridge started out as a nightclub singer and actress who sang in supper clubs in ...

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 ...