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Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography

English

By (author): Donald Bogle

Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performerthe first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Awardwho broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movementa 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 Dandridges 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 Tinseltowns glass ceiling. Along with her smash appearances at venues such as Harlems famed Cotton Club, Dorothy starred in numerous films, making history with her role in Otto Premingers Carmen Jones, playing opposite Harry Belafonte. Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actressthe first Oscar nod for a woman of color.

But Dorothys 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 bankruptdespair 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 751g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Nov 2021
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780063079328

About Donald Bogle

Donald Bogle is one of the country's leading authorities on African Americans in Hollywood. He is the author of the groundbreaking Toms Coons Mulattoes Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films; the acclaimed biography Dorothy Dandridge; and Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars. He teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania.

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