Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones, a performance which also earned h
Dandridge in 1954
Los Angeles Examiner front page that highlights Dorothy Dandridge and others
Dandridge with Alain Delon on the set La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo, filmed in 1962 but only released years later with both edited out.
Tuesday, September 7, 1965; Dorothy Kilgallen's show business column states that nightclub Basin Street East would be opening "this Friday" with a Dorothy Dandridge premier engagement.
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-American film and theatre director, film producer and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre, and was one
Dorothy Dandridge
…to a World War II-era, African-American setting. Dandridge had most recently played a lead as a school teacher in Bright Road, and director and writer Otto Preminger couldn't visualize Dandridge as the classic femme fatale in Carmen Jones (1954). He thought that she would be suited for the smaller role, Cindy Lou…
Preminger in 1976, photographed by Allan Warren
Preminger (sitting) with (left to right) Liane Haid, Oskar Karlweis, Paul Abraham, Tibor Halmay, and Rosy Barsony in 1934
Preminger and author John D. Voelker in the trailer for Anatomy of a Murder
The niche of Otto Preminger in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)