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 ...

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 ...

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 Weekend Classics series continues at the Belcourt with Carmen Jones, the 1954 musical starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge. Set in the Deep South during WWII, the retelling of Bizet’s ...

HBO has an equally commendable and frustrating history of making well-chosen but flat and conventional biographical films about controversial, larger-than-life figures (Roy Cohn, Josephine Baker, Don ...

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 ...

Scripter-helmer Sharon L. Graine has crafted a woefully undernourished chronicle of the tempestuous, ultimately tragic love affair between Austrian-born film director-producer Otto Preminger (1906-86) ...