Rest In Peace Dorothy Dandridge.

Dorothy was a class act. She was so beautiful.

I hate when biographers focus on the $2.00 in her/an account. How did she pay for her apartment and food? The truth is that Dorothy's career was in an upswing at the time of her death. She had recently performed shows to good reviews. She had recently returned from a trip to Mexico where she had signed contracts for two films for $50,000.00 each. She was also scheduled to fly to New York for a booking at Basin St. East the morning she was found dead.

A better world is needed. A world where race is a total non-factor.

She was filled with guilt for her daughter,my mother had problems with living in guilt and even though we forgave her she's still couldn't take it she drank her self to death R.IP. mama...RIP beautiful Dorothy the most beautiful and talented women that ever came across the screen may she finally be able to find peace

Poor dorothy she deserved better

A beautiful and classy lady. Her voice was so beautiful. 🕊️🙏❤️

Living as a non-white in America in the 20's and 30's looks like a horrible time (and prior and subsequent years too).

She was absolutely stunning.

I first heard of Dorothy Dandridge when I watched the movie, "To Woo Fong, Thanks for everything, julie Newmar"! I loved the introduction and was fascinated by her beauty and intellect. It was a terrible time to be a black women of beauty, you were a target for every rapacious person in the business! Today, she would have been a major star and influencer.

I hope and pray more people will focus on her awesome accomplishments and less on her shortcomings which we all have. Leave her with her amazing dignity.

What a gorgeous lady. Thanks for the story I loved it

Such a brilliant star, so sad how her life left her, and us, too soon.

RIP Dorothy D. 🙏

She was so beautiful

I doubt she committed suicide. She was making a comeback. The embolism killed her.

Yes i remember her so thanks for her story.

Thanks for sharing 👍😀

Very interesting Thank you. Peace,,,💕🇺🇲

She’s so beautiful!! 🤩 🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍

Such a Queen! Heaven is yours 💜🤍

So sad. 🌹

She was a trailblazer, an inspiration and talented beauty. For me, this is the perfect description for this amazing lady.

She was a great actress. I wish to learn more of people of color so my grandkids could know about them too. Growing up in the late 50’s and 60’s I was not allowed to play with people of color. I never could understand why. Then one day my mother told me about dad being from the south. I had to do what my dad told me to do. Me being part German, I spoke German. The only people in school that wanted to play with me were people of color. I was treated bad. But never as bad as they were treated. Anyway, I’m going to watch her movies.

Beautiful woman

Found naked by her manager? That sounds suspect as Hell..

Whatever the commercial reception of her later 1950s film Tamango, where she naturalistically well played the captive mistress of the white captain of a circa 1820s doomed ship carrying chained slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, it deserves a far wider audience for its artistic, cultural and historical great significance. It can be viewed on KZfaq for free.

She possessed beautiful symmetry in her face and such a sad ending, she deserved better, more accolades

1st year of Dorothy Dandridge when i was 10 years old we watched the auto biography with Halle Berry❤

In a world not ruled by hatred and inequality black people would have so much more value.

Rest In Heavenly Peace🙏🤍🕊🙏♥️

Poor thing, she was used and abused so much

The dame that was a more than a dime !

wow unfortunately her life was very sad.

She ain't kill her self.

I just lost a second old friend to suicide, during Vietnam, I lost many young friends to suicide. Dorthy was a beautiful lady who was enjoyed by many.

Loved carmen jones she was so beautifull and a lovely voice

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It's too bad she didn't have enough movie power because she was a natural beauty.

Click bait bs!

This is a very negative less than three-minute video. She had the most successful career. Of any African American Actor in the decade of the 1950's Here are a few of her 1St. She was the first Afro American actress or actor to be Nominated for an Oscar in a Leading Actor or Actress category, to walk the red carpet and be an Oscar Presenter, the same year she was nominated, [she was a presenter again in 1957] to grace the cover of Life Magazine, [I bought a copy of the magazine on e-bay] to sign a three-year contract with a major studio, 20 Century Fox for starring roles only on February 15th 1955, to open at the Empire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria on April 11, 1955 She was also the first to have an interracial kiss on screen. In "The Decks Ran Red" Stuart Whitman [playing a villain] kisses her, which gives her a chance to take his gun and shoot him. He says, "You shouldn't have done that Baby" and keeps coming toward her, as she backs away, then he drops. [ I love that scene]- As for the success of the film, that wasn't her department. As long as she made the film, she had to be paid the lucrative salary per film stipulated in her contract [lucrative in the 1950's] regardless of the success. of the film. She did not make a series of flops. "Island in the Sun" "The Decks Ran Red" And Tamango did well at the box office. Every role she played, in which she had a lead role, showed her acting talent, starting with the 1951 film "The Harlem Globe Trotters. As far her skin color, she was the first African American actor to make films that had nothing to do with any particular ethnic group. Those films were "The Decks Ran Red" Malaga" and Marco Polo" {THAT film was never completed because the producers ran out of money} Her career was never over. The week of her death she had just returned from Mexico, where she signed a contract for one hundred thousand dollars for two films. She was scheduled to open at Basin Street East in New York the Friday of that week. Obliviously she had to have more than two dollars to her name. According to her agent Earl Mills, the day she died Evening gowns for her Basin Street East engagement were to be delivered to her apartment. She had to have the money to pay for the gowns. If money was a problem, she would not have had the gowns made in the first place. A lady was scheduled to come and pack her wardrobe trunk for the Basin Street Engagement. She had to have the money to pay the lady. The week of her death, career wise, and money wise, things could not have been better for her. Today she has a star on Hollywood Blvd. and a statue at Hollywood Gateway.

*She died at 41 not 42*

Good report, but a couple of those film clips were of another actress. The opening and at 3:09.

So pretty...

You didn’t tell US anything new! For the record: Dorothy was murdered! I think Dorothy did a good job with her career, since she had to deal with blatant racism the entire time! She got to star in 10 Films, she got to sing at Nightclubs, her beautiful face graced the cover of countless Magazines, she was a Fashion Icon!

What, 42, Elvis was 42 when he died

Dorothy was beautiful and talented. As a black woman myself, I am angry and frustrated with the racism and sexist people of color and women face in this world..

Colored women's favorite pass-time fashion magazine Ebony.

Hello

None of these reports is new or enlightening. Miss Dandridge just couldn't get out of her own head.

She was friends with Marilyn hmmm

Drugs are bad mmmkay

Did she commit suicide ?

Which is why I still can't understand why black women joined the white feminist movement. Where were white women when black women were enslaved, and Jim crow segregated? Racism killed poor Dorothy.