Dorothy Dandridge, Angel Face

'You ain't going to work in Mister Charley's kitchen like me. I don't want you to go into service. You are not going to be a scullery maid. We're going to fix it so you be something else than that.' - Ruby to Dorothy Ruby had three brothers.  Her father was a musical and religious West Indian known as George Frank or George Butler.  George was born in Jamaica and he married a Mexican girl (which means Maternal Grandmother 1/2 Spanish and 1/2 West Indian).  Ruby's dad George had a winning West Indian accent.  Dorothy never met him or her uncles.  He ran a local grocery store and later a local Negro school in Kansas, as a principal. I had been raised with no man around the house; I had never seen a man shaving; I had never seen a man in his shorts. ~ Dorothy The marriage to Harold almost did not happen.  Dorothy had an interim small romance with a saxophone player named Joe.  Dorothy was at one point hesitant about Harold,  J...

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Fayard taught Harold to dance.  Harold's dance inspiration was not Bojangles or John Bubbles or Astaire?  It was Fayard.

Clarence Muse loved saying he foresaw Dorothy Dandridge's stardom.   Ruby wanted Muse to help her daughters get into the movies.  Clarence told her to forget Hollywood and take her girls back to Cleveland where thy had come from.  According to him her daughters were too light skinned for the movies.   Muse  said this later about Ruby and her daughters, "I paid their first damn money for an apartment they lived in and I never got my $70 back either."