Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television movie directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1999, the movie was aired in the United States on August 14, 1999.

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Martha Coolidge - 1999 - United States - August 14

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Dorothy Dandridge (played by Academy Award winner Halle Berry) was a Hollywood trailblazer. A confident sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the first African-American woman ever nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, but the electrifying stage chanteuse and dancer was forbidden to even enter the nightclubs and show rooms she performed in except from the stage. As portrayed by Halle Berry, who shepherded Dandridge's story to the screen, Dandridge is a sure, insistent star who battled racist studios and Jim Crow laws to maintain her dignity in public while stumbling through a private life marked by bad relationships and abusive lovers. Berry gives her best performance to date, brimming with ambition and moxie offstage, charming audiences with the slinky, sure moves of a nightclub veteran onstage, and convincingly "becoming" Dandridge in dramatic re-creations form.

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Dorothy Dandridge - Academy Award - Halle Berry - Sex symbol - 1950s - African-American - Jim Crow

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Halle Berry received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

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