
Dorothy Dandridge
Oyuncu · 1922 – 1965 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles. In 1959, Dandridge was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Porgy and Bess. She is the subject of the 1999 biographical film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, with Halle Berry portraying her. She has been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Film6.2DramRomantikIn this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.
Carmen Jones
1954 · 103 votes
Film7.1KomediMüzikDoktor kılığında bir veteriner, bir yarış atı sahibi ve arkadaşları, uyumsuz bir yarış atının yardımıyla bir sanatoryumu açık tutmak için mücadele ederler.
Film6.5DramRomantikA scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
Island in the Sun
1957 · 23 votes
Film6.6DramIn 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Since You Went Away
1944 · 56 votes
Film8.5BelgeselThe life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, John Huston, Laurence Olivier and others.
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001 · 2 votes
Film8.3BelgeselActor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame racism and personal tragedy to become one of the most acclaimed performers of Hollywood's golden age. The film combines rare historical footage of Dandridge, on and off the stage, and interviews with stars such as Laurence Fishburne, Jasmine Guy and Halle Berry discussing her powerful legacy.
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003 · 3 votes
Film8.7BelgeselMüzikA star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured are: Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Little Richard, Also included are today's contemporary superstars: Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Russell Simmons, and many, more! 80 minutes plus DVD bonus features.
It's Black Entertainment
2002 · 3 votes
Film6.4GerilimMaceraA band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.
The Decks Ran Red
1958 · 15 votes
Film6.0KomediGizemA singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Remains to Be Seen
1953 · 4 votes
Film6.0KomediWesternTwo peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1941 · 29 votes
Film6.5KomediSuçRuss Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
It Can't Last Forever
1937 · 4 votes
Film6.3MüzikDramIn the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Porgy and Bess
1959 · 27 votes
Film7.1KomediMüzikWhen Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
Sun Valley Serenade
1941 · 31 votes
Film6.6RomantikKomediA sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Going Places
1938 · 7 votes
FilmMüzikCompilation film of various African-American performers and acts.
Film5.5SavaşDramEnglishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Sundown
1941 · 26 votes
Film4.2GizemSuçA policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Night in New Orleans
1942 · 6 votes
Film6.5RomantikA department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1938 · 4 votes
Film7.4KomediSuçLucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Lucky Jordan
1942 · 5 votes
Film10.0DramRomantikA safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
Drums of the Congo
1942 · 1 votes
Film5.5AksiyonMaceraEscaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
Tarzan's Peril
1951 · 12 votes
Film6.5DramMüzikConnie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Orchestra Wives
1942 · 13 votes
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Dizi6.8KomediTalk ShowThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · 23 votes
Dizi6.9KomediThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · 13 votes
Dizi7.1An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
The Oscars
1953 · 85 votes
Dizi5.2DramA former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
Cain's Hundred
1961 · 4 votes