Dorothy Dandridge
| Dorothy Dandridge | |
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 Dandridge dalam sebuah penampilan tahun 1962 | |
| Lahir | Dorothy Jean Dandridge 9 November 1922 Cleveland, Ohio, Amerika Serikat |
| Meninggal | 8 September 1965 (usia 42 tahun) West Hollywood, California, Amerika Serikat |
| Makam | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
| Pekerjaan | Aktris · penyanyi · penari |
| Tahun aktif | 1933-1965 |
| Suami/istri | Harold Nicholas (1942-1951) Jack Denison (1959-1962) |
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Dorothy Jean Dandridge (9 November 1922 – 8 September 1965) adalah seorang aktris dan penyanyi berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia merupakan bintang film Afrika-Amerika pertama yang dinominasikan untuk meraih Academy Award untuk kategori Aktris Terbaik melalui performanya di film Carmen Jones (1954).[1]
Pada tahun 1959, Dandridge dinominasikan untuk meraih Golden Globe Award atas perannya di Porgy and Bess. Dia diperankan oleh Halle Berry dalam film biografi tentang dirinya, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). Dia telah dianugerahi bintang di Hollywood Walk of Fame.[2]
Dia dilahirkan di Cleveland, Ohio. Dia berkarier di dunia film sejak tahun 1935.
Filmografi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Film
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Moment of Danger (1960) .... Gianna
- Porgy and Bess (1959) .... Bess
- The Decks Ran Red (1958) .... Mahia
- Tamango (1958) .... Aiché, Reiker's mistress
- Island in the Sun (1957) .... Margot Seaton
- Carmen Jones (1954) .... Carmen Jones
- Bright Road (1953) .... Jane Richards
- The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) .... Ann Carpenter
- Tarzan's Peril (1951) .... Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba
- Atlantic City (1944) .... Singer
- Hit Parade of 1943 (1943) .... Count Basie Band Singer
- Drums of the Congo (1942) .... Princess Malimi
- Bahama Passage (1941) .... Thalia
- Sundown (1941) (uncredited) .... Kipsang's Bride
- Sun Valley Serenade (1941) .... Specialty act
- Lady from Louisiana (1941) .... Felice
- Four Shall Die (1940) .... Helen Fielding
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) (sebagai The Dandridge Sisters) .... Member of the Dandridge Sisters
Televisi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Cain's Hundred .... Norma Sherman (Blues for a Junkman, 1962)
- Ford Star Jubilee (You're the Top, 1956)
Peranan tidak dikritik
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Ebony Parade (1947) (as Dorothy Daindridge)
- Since You Went Away (1944) .... Black Officer's Wife in Train Station
- Happy Go Lucky (1943) .... Chorine
- Lucky Jordan (1942) .... Hollyhock School Maid
- Night in New Orleans (1942) .... Sal, Shadrach's Girl
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942) .... Maid
- Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) .... Congoroo
- Sundown (1941) .... Kipsang's Bride
- Irene (1940) .... The Dandridge Sisters
- Going Places (1938) .... Member of Singing/Dancing Trio at Party
- Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938) .... One of the Dandridge Sisters, Vocal Trio
- It Can't Last Forever (1937) .... Dandridge Sisters Act
- A Day at the Races (1937) .... Performer in the 'All God's Children Got Rhythm' number
- Easy to Take (1936) .... The Dandridge Sisters
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Biographical sketch Diarsipkan 2010-12-03 di Wayback Machine.
- Findadeath Diarsipkan 2007-11-18 di Wayback Machine.
- Dorothy Dandridge di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- Dorothy Dandridge's Gravesite
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- ^ Potter, Joan (2002). African American Firsts: Famous Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Kensington Books. hlm. 81. ISBN 0-7582-0243-1.
- ^ McCann, Bob (2010). Encyclopedia of black actresses in film and television. McFarland & Company. hlm. 90. ISBN 978-0-7864-5804-2.