Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965) was the first African American woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones. Her glamorous image and turbulent life have inspired many to compare her to...

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor-singer-entertainer Dorothy Dandridge was smart, immensely talented, and alluringly beautiful. In her three-decade career in Hollywood she endured the bittersweet distinction of being the first sexy black woman film artist...

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922–September 8, 1965) was an American actress and popular singer. The first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, she was also the first African-American woman to appear at...

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE A Biography By Donald Bogle Amistad, 613 pp., illustrated, $27.95 If moviegoers are unfamiliar with the name Dorothy Dandridge, they can find glimpses of her in today's African-American actresses. She is in the defiant curl of Angela Bassett's lips, the come-hither invitation...

by Donald Bogle. New York: Amistad Press, 1997.613 pp., illus. Hardcover: $27.95. Beyond excavating and reconstructing the details of a long-ignored or faded celebrity life, the production of any black 'star' biography, must often be, at least in part, an act of...

Halle Berry says she and her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, tried and tried and tried to get pregnant. "So there was a lot of staying home and doing what you do. Like, all the time, around the clock," the 41-year-old Oscar-winning actress said Tuesday on "The...