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The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)

Dorothy Dandridge Look-a-Like

Dead Ringers for Dorothy....or they could portray her in a film. Tyler Collins Carmen Ejogo Jayne Kennedy Overton Jayne Kennedy starred in a film portraying Dorothy Dandridge in the never released movie "The Dorothy Dandridge Story" in 1980. Utimately, the story was produced by HBO and starred another Cleveland native, Halle Berry. Carole Davis

Otto Preminger

On the set of 'Carmen Jones', Dandridge usually kept to herself when not working in a scene, partly because she felt that others in the company mistrusted her and suspected her relationship with Preminger. Preminger originally wanted Dorothy for the role of 'Cindy Lou' in the film Carmen Jones (1954).  Dorothy laughed, and insisted that she could play a hellcat or a nun.   Orly Airport (May 9,1955) Preminger paid the down payment on her new showplace house in the Hollywood Hills and kept her checking account replenished.   Like Otto, Dorothy matched him in his meticulousness and discipline. Otto bullied everyone on the set with the exception of Pearl Bailey.  Dorothy got it the worse, but according to Geri, Dorothy's best friend, Dorothy handled Otto off the set ,"She gave him hell for two weeks. She didn't yell back on the set, but i'm telling you she gave him hell." "He couldn't get me out o

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Dorothy, Harold, Fayard Harold, Dorothy, Fayard

Bahama Passage (1941)

                                           18 year old Dorothy w/ Sterling Hayden

Lady From Louisiana (1941)

w / Ona Munson w / Ona Munson w / John Wayne and Ona Munson

Bright Road (1953) aka 'See How They Run'

w/ Harry w/ Harry and Marlon Brando w/ Anthony Quinn w/ Harry w / Philip Hepburn w / Ava Gardner and John Farrow

Phil Moore

Cain's Hundred : Blues for a Junkman Arthur Troy (1962)

w / Peter Michael Richman w/ Peter Mark Richman