Dorothy Dandridge

Author : Donald Bogle
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063209312

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Dorothy Dandridge by Donald Bogle Pdf

Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer—the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award—who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement—a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. “An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long-ignored film star and chanteuse. . . . Bogle has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era in Hollywood and passionately documented the contribution of one of its most dazzling and complex performers."—New York Times Book Review In the segregated world of 1950s America, few celebrities were as talented, beautiful, glamorous, and ultimately influential as Dorothy Dandridge. Universally admired, she was Hollywood's first full-fledged Black movie star. Film historian Donald Bogle offers a panoramic portrait of Dorothy Dandridge’s extraordinary and ultimately tragic life and career, from her early years as a child performer in Cleveland, to her rise as a nightclub headliner and movie star, to her heartbreaking death at 42. Bogle reveals how this exceptionally talented and intensely ambitious entertainer broke down racial barriers by integrating some of America's hottest nightclubs and broke through Tinseltown’s glass ceiling. Along with her smash appearances at venues such as Harlem’s famed Cotton Club, Dorothy starred in numerous films, making history with her role in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, playing opposite Harry Belafonte. Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress—the first Oscar nod for a woman of color. But Dorothy’s wealth, fame, and success masked a reality fraught with contradiction and illusion. Struggling to find good roles professionally, uncomfortable with her image as a sex goddess, coping with the aftermath of two unhappy marriages and a string of unfulfilling affairs, and overwhelmed with guilt for her disabled daughter, Dorothy found herself emotionally and financially bankrupt—despair that ended in her untimely death. Woven from extensive research and unique interviews, as magnetic as the woman at its heart, Dorothy Dandridge captures this dazzling entertainer in all her complexity: her strength and vulnerability, her joy and her pain, her trials and her triumphs.

Author : Earl Mills
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087067899X

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Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills Pdf

In 1955 the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge became the first ever African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Performance. In show business since the age of three years, she became Hollywood's first major black female star with the 1954 release of Carmen Jones in which she co-starred with Harry Belafonte. Other major roles were to follow, but her downfall was her terrible taste in men. She married two of them, both treated her badly, the last leaving her nearly bankrupt. Then tragedy struck in the form of her mysterious death which still puzzles many.

Author : Dorothy Dandridge,Earl Conrad
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060956755

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Everything and Nothing by Dorothy Dandridge,Earl Conrad Pdf

Dorothy Dandridge's life story is the stuff Hollywood dreams--and nightmares. Completed shortly before her tragic death in 19665, Everything and Nothing recounts her rags-to-riches-to-rags story form her personal point of view. Dandridge recalls her humble beginnings in Depression-era Cleveland, Ohio, her rise to fame and success as the first African American to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination (for her role in Carmen Jones), the disappointments and pain of her childhood and family life, and her downward spiral into alcoholism and financial troubles, Everything and Nothing is a mesmerizing and harrowing journey through the life and times of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable stars.

Author : Earl Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087067580X

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Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills Pdf

Author : DeAnn Herringshaw
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617147796

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Dorothy Dandridge by DeAnn Herringshaw Pdf

Recounts the life of the first African American woman to be nominated for an Oscar.

Author : Donald Bogle,Turner Classic Movies
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780762491407

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Hollywood Black by Donald Bogle,Turner Classic Movies Pdf

The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression, when black performers such as Stepin Fetchit and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than not, they were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles, but some gifted performers, most notably Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939), were able to turn in significant performances. In the coming decades, more black talents would light up the screen. Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carmen Jones (1954), and Sidney Poitier broke ground in films like The Defiant Ones and1963's Lilies of the Field. Hollywood Black reveals the changes in images that came about with the evolving social and political atmosphere of the US, from the Civil Rights era to the Black Power movement. The story takes readers through Blaxploitation, with movies like Shaft and Super Fly, to the emergence of such stars as Cicely Tyson, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg, and of directors Spike Lee and John Singleton. The history comes into the new millennium with filmmakers Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Ava Du Vernay (Selma),and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther); megastars such as Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Morgan Freeman; as well as Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, and a glorious gallery of others. Filled with evocative photographs and stories of stars and filmmakers on set and off, Hollywood Black tells an underappreciated history as it's never before been told.

Author : Mia Mask
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252091827

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Divas on Screen by Mia Mask Pdf

This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.

Author : Dorothy Dandridge,Earl Conrad
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:$B811099

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Everything and Nothing by Dorothy Dandridge,Earl Conrad Pdf

Memoir of America's first Black movie star, Dorothy Dandridge, and her rise from a shanty town to stardom and heartbreak in a segregated society.

Author : Charlene B. Regester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253004314

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African American Actresses by Charlene B. Regester Pdf

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom. She reveals how these women fought for their roles as well as what they compromised (or didn't compromise). Regester repositions these actresses to highlight their contributions to cinema in the first half of the 20th century, taking an informed theoretical, historical, and critical approach.

Author : Glenda Dickerson
Publisher : Polity
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745634425

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African American Theater by Glenda Dickerson Pdf

This book will shine a new light on the culture that has historically nurtured and inspired black theater. Functioning as an interactive guide it takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays that dramatists wrote and produced.

Author : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion picture acting
ISBN : 0415310253

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Movie Acting, the Film Reader by Pamela Robertson Wojcik Pdf

Combining classic and recent essays and examining key issues such Movie Acting, the Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting.

Author : Aberjhani,Sandra L. West
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438130170

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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Aberjhani,Sandra L. West Pdf

Presents articles on the period known as the Harlem Renaissance, during which African American artists, poets, writers, thinkers, and musicians flourished in Harlem, New York.

Author : Edward Mapp
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810861062

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African Americans and the Oscar by Edward Mapp Pdf

At the 2007 Academy Awards(R) ceremony, an unprecedented number of Black performers received acting nominations, and two of the statues awarded that evening went to Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson. Indeed, since 2000, more African Americans have received Oscars than in the previous century. While the last few years have seen more and more Black performers receive acknowledgment by the Academy, it hasn't always been that way. African Americans and the Oscar(R) Decades of Struggle and Achievement highlights the advancements Black performers have made on the silver screen and how those performances were honored by the Academy. In the Academy's first 40 years, less than ten African Americans were cited for their work on screen and only two, Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, received competitive awards before the 1980s. This book profiles all the nominees and recipients of the coveted award in the acting, writing, and directing categories, beginning with the first: McDaniel's Best Supporting Actress win for her role in Gone with the Wind (1939). Each entry, organized chronologically and by name, provides valuable information about how the role or film was viewed during its time and also places it in historical context by drawing connections to other related awards or events in film history. In the introduction, Mapp's overview of the nomination process helps explain the historically low percentage of African Americans who have been nominated or received the honor. Also, appendixes provide lists of non-acting/directing nominees and winners, overlooked performances, and performers of nominated songs. Highlighting the achievements of Sidney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg, Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington and others, this volume provides an enlightening history of the Black experience in Hollywood and will fascinate fans of all ages.

Author : Clint C. Wilson,Felix Gutierrez,Lena Chao
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761925163

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Racism, Sexism, and the Media by Clint C. Wilson,Felix Gutierrez,Lena Chao Pdf

This third edition presents current information in the rapidly evolving field of minorities' interaction with mass communications, including the portrayals of minorities in the media, advertising and public relations.

Author : Laura L. Finley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440874130

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes] by Laura L. Finley Pdf

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.