Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
by Martha Coolidge
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Actor: Brent Spiner, Halle Berry, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Loretta Devine, Obba Babatund?Director: Martha Coolidge
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Movie Review: so sad towards the end of her tragic,beautiful life,she finally realizin EARL MILLS truly loved her,just to die,R.I.P.
Summary: 5 Stars
BEAUTIFUL BEYOND WORDS DORO WAS AND NUFF SAID INSIDE "AND OUT"BOTH THE
WHOLE SEXY SYMBOL PKGE.AMAZING TALENTED CAN MOVE BEAUTIFUL BELLA MAMITA FO
SURE. HALLE "ALMOST LOOK EXACTLY: LIKE HER THE SKIN HAIR PERFECTO LIKE HOW
D.D. WORN IT THRU N THRU,she was a great actress in this tragedy so sad
she was way too young,to die like she did i know she was NOT trying to
kill self,she was with HER AGENT/TRUE MAN REAL MAN
WHO LOVED HER FOR"JUST HER'NOTHING MORE" who even help get her work shows again etc ya know he really TRULY LOVED HER never to use and hurt her,
AND I LOVE HOW SHE ALWAYS SAYING
HIS NAME SEXY SWEET LIKE "oh why earl mills" lol i smile just seeing her
in this and hearing more on D.D.over the years and watching her old few
films,her music songs i have all of them i think a collection and painting
of BELLA DOROTHY and halle. love them both and i feel bad she died so sad
tragic.but GREAT movie giving it ten hundred if i can,but since we can
ONLY VOTE FIVE i give it cinco.
rest in peace ms.dandrige you are NEVER forgotten chica. we love you god bless.god speed AND HALLE I LOVE YOU ALWAYS HAVE ALWAYS WILL,you are fabulous in this movie and ALL your movies.
adios!
BMW300ZXREDHEAD@aol.com
Summary of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge was a Hollywood trailblazer. A confident sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, but the electrifying stage chanteuse and dancer was forbidden to even enter the nightclubs and show rooms she performed in except from the stage. As portrayed by Halle Berry, who shepherded Dandridge's story to the screen, Dandridge is a sure, insistent star who battled racist studios and Jim Crow laws to maintain her dignity in public while stumbling through a private life marked by bad relationships and abusive lovers. Berry gives her best performance to date, brimming with ambition and moxie offstage, charming audiences with the slinky, sure moves of a nightclub veteran onstage, and convincingly "becoming" Dandridge in dramatic re-creations from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) is sweet and sympathetic as her supportive, lovesick manager, and Klaus Maria Brandauer is, in Dandridge's words, a "big old bulldog" as director Otto Preminger. Director Martha Coolidge balances private troubles with professional milestones and setbacks and pulls no punches showing the institutional racism of late 1950s Las Vegas or the brutality of a vicious alcoholic husband. Originally made for HBO, this drama lacks the big-budget spectacle of traditional Hollywood biographies but offers in its place sharp writing, intelligent direction, and strong, sensitive performances. --Sean AxmakerAn acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy struggled with the challenge of her color in Hollywood. She beat out many more famous rivals for the role of ' 'Carmen Jones' ', and became the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (R). Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings.
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