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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

6.5 115 mins Drama   TV Movie   1999
HBO  
Director(s): Martha Coolidge

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

Casts of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Halle Berry

as Dorothy Dandridge

Brent Spiner

as Earl Mills

Klaus Maria Brandauer

as Otto Preminger

Obba Babatundé

as Harold Nicholas

Loretta Devine

as Ruby Dandridge

Cynda Williams

as Vivian Dandridge

Tamara Taylor

as Geri Nicholas

William Atherton

as Darryl Zanuck

D. B. Sweeney

as Jack Denison

Billy Mayo

as Sergeant

Sharon Brown

as Etta Jones

Guy Torry

as First Actor

Sarah Scott Davis

as Second Actress

Kerri Randles

as Marilyn Monroe

Jon Mack

as Ava Gardner

Raphael Sbarge

as Vegas Hotel Manager

Margaret Easley

as Ring-a-ding Girl

Joanne Baron

as Doctor Carrington

Benjamin Brown

as Sidney Poitier

Dwain A. Perry

as Private

Clinton Derricks-Carroll

as Phil Moore

André Carthen

as Harry Belafonte

Tom Virtue

as Miami Comic

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