Dorothy Dandridge and the burden of being first Black Best Actress Oscar nominee
Just 10 years later, she died penniless and all but forgotten. Yes, that noble Blacktress, who never played domestic help. And then who’s career was crushed by the white Hollywood machine." Credit:©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection; Design: Alex Sandoval Noxeema Jackson,To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar What Dorothy Dandridge accomplished was extraordinary. “Carmen Joneswas the best break I’ve ever had,“Dandridge once said. Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte in ‘Carmen Jones’.getty...