Adoringly Dorothy Dandridge

Treasuring the life and legacy of Dorothy Jean Dandridge, Hollywood's first African American dramatic female movie star. Dorothy's extraordinary talent and beauty helped her to accomplish amazing feats in Hollywood during a time when it seemed nearly...

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Dorothy Dandridge

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Dorothy Dandridge arriving at the premiere of the film Porgy & Bess at the Warner Theatre in New York City on June 24, 1959.

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Dorothy Dandridge

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DOROTHY DANDRIDGE in SWING FOR YOUR SUPPER — 1941, dir. Josef Berne

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Dorothy Dandridge as Bess

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An unpublished frame at Dorothy Dandridge at home in 1954. (Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends

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DOROTHY DANDRIDGE in COW-COW BOOGIE — 1942, dir. Josef Berne

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Dorothy Dandridge filming the limbo dance scene in the 1957 motion picture, Island In the Sun.

Thanks to British MovieTone for preserving behind the scenes footage.

📸 Photo @dandridgelove (Thanks for finding!) ❤️

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Sidney Poitier et Dorothy Dandridge dans Porgy and Bess de Otto Preminger, 1959.

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DOROTHY DANDRIDGE in SWING FOR YOUR SUPPER — 1941, dir. Josef Berne

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Dorothy Dandridge signing autographs at the premiere of the film “Porgy and Bess” (1959)

“I never met anyone who had the same kind of generosity. She was the sort of person that if you were in need, she’d get out of bed and help you. Or if she had a coat and somebody didn’t have a coat, she’d jump out of the car. She would do everything she could to give you that coat. She took a stove out of her house once because somebody got put out of their apartment and they were going into another apartment. She gave them the stove. It was a spirit. It was the heart…she praised other actors. She was generous of spirit. She had supreme honesty.” —Geraldine “Geri” Pate, Fayard Nicholas’ wife

(From Dorothy Dandridge by Donald Bogle, 1997)

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Dorothy Dandridge in Oxford for May Morning

(Carl Mydans. 1956?)

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A radiant Dorothy Dandridge descends the staircase in a London nightclub, c.1951

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Dorothy Dandridge, November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965.

At the Macambo in Los Angeles in 1951.

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Phil Moore and Dorothy Dandridge at the Mocambo

(Ed Clark. 1951)

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DOROTHY DANDRIDGE in The Decks Ran Red (1958), dir. Andrew L. Stone