INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

'''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge''' is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1999, the film was aired in the United States on August 14, 1999.

Contents

Plot summary

Cast

Awards & nominations

See also

External links

Plot summary

Dorothy Dandridge (portrayed by Halle Berry) was a Hollywood trailblazer. A confident sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the first African-American woman ever nominated for an Oscar for '"Best Actress", 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 form.

Cast

★ Halle Berry — Dorothy Dandridge

★ Brent Spiner — Earl Mills

★ Klaus Maria Brandauer — Otto Preminger

★ Obba Babatundé — Harold Nicholas

★ Loretta Devine — Ruby Dandridge

★ Cynda Williams — Vivian Dandridge

★ LaTanya Richardson — Auntie

★ Tamara Taylor — Geri Nicholas

★ William Atherton — Darryl Zanuck

★ D.B. Sweeney — Jack Denison

★ Don Gettinger — Hotel Clerk

★ Nicholas Hormann — Oscar Emcee

★ Sharon Brown — Etta Jones

★ Darrian C Ford — Fayard Nicholas

Awards & nominations

'2000 Black Reel Awards'

★ Best Actress — Halle Berry (won)

★ Best Film (won)

★ Best Supporting Actor — Obba Babatundé (nominated)

★ Best Supporting Actor — Brent Spiner (nominated)
'2000 Directors Guild of American'

★ Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television — Martha Coolidge (nominated)
'2000 Emmy Awards'

★ Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)

★ Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)

★ Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)

★ Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)

★ Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — Halle Berry (won)

★ Outstanding Choreography — (nominated)

★ Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special — Martha Coolidge (nominated)

★ Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie — Klaus Maria Brandauer (nominated)
'2000 Golden Globes'

★ Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV — Halle Berry (won)

★ Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (nominated)

★ Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV — Klaus Maria Brandauer (nominated)
'2000 Image Awards'

★ Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special — Halle Berry (won)

★ Outstanding Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special (won)

★ Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special — Obba Babatundé (nominated)
'2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards'

★ Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries — Halle Berry (won)

See also

★ Dorothy Dandridge

External links

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