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The Resource Dorothy Dandridge : a biography, Donald Bogle

Dorothy Dandridge : a biography, Donald Bogle

Label
Dorothy Dandridge : a biography
Title
Dorothy Dandridge
Title remainder
a biography
Statement of responsibility
Donald Bogle
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. 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 Dandridge's 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 Tinseltown's glass ceiling. Along with her smash appearances at venues such as Harlem's famed Cotton Club, Dorothy starred in numerous films, making history with her role in Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones, playing opposite Harry Belafonte. Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress the first Oscar nod for a woman of color. But Dorothy's 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 bankrupt despair 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"--Publisher's description
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Bogle, Donald
Dewey number
791.43028092
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
PN2287.D256
LC item number
B64 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • filmographies
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Dandridge, Dorothy
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • African American motion picture actors and actresses
Label
Dorothy Dandridge : a biography, Donald Bogle
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "First HarperCollins edition published in 1997"--Title page verso
  • Filmography: pages 685-690
Bar code
31223143354042
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 681-684) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Career, Courtship, and Marriage ;
  • 5.
  • Lynn
  • Part II.
  • 6.
  • Career Thrust ;
  • 7.
  • Rising ;
  • 8.
  • The Saloons ;
  • Part I.
  • 9.
  • Making Carmen ;
  • 10.
  • Stardom ;
  • 11.
  • Peaking
  • Part III.
  • 12.
  • Making Porgy ;
  • 13.
  • 1.
  • Hoping ;
  • 14.
  • Collapse ;
  • 15.
  • Lonely Days, Long Nights, Last Rites
  • Cleveland ;
  • 2.
  • A Hollywood Girlhood ;
  • 3.
  • The Dandridge Sisters ;
  • 4.
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Extent
xxx, 720 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780063079328
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1223069244
Label
Dorothy Dandridge : a biography, Donald Bogle
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "First HarperCollins edition published in 1997"--Title page verso
  • Filmography: pages 685-690
Bar code
31223143354042
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 681-684) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Career, Courtship, and Marriage ;
  • 5.
  • Lynn
  • Part II.
  • 6.
  • Career Thrust ;
  • 7.
  • Rising ;
  • 8.
  • The Saloons ;
  • Part I.
  • 9.
  • Making Carmen ;
  • 10.
  • Stardom ;
  • 11.
  • Peaking
  • Part III.
  • 12.
  • Making Porgy ;
  • 13.
  • 1.
  • Hoping ;
  • 14.
  • Collapse ;
  • 15.
  • Lonely Days, Long Nights, Last Rites
  • Cleveland ;
  • 2.
  • A Hollywood Girlhood ;
  • 3.
  • The Dandridge Sisters ;
  • 4.
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Extent
xxx, 720 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780063079328
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1223069244

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