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Dorothy Dandridge was born in Ohio in 1922. She toured America with sister and mother, performing in Baptist churches before Los Angeles put her on the screen. Her roles were largely stereotypical black ones, as with her sisters in the Marx Brothers' A Day at The Races. Among her film roles were a southern schoolteacher in Bright Road (1953) and the title roles in Carmen Jones (1954) and Otto Preminger's production of Porgy and Bess (1959). Dorothy Dandridge was twice married and had an institutionalised child. She became bankrupt and was found dead in 1965.
(Photograph: National Archives)
Other Portraits (Keele American Studies Portrait Gallery)
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