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Dedicated to Dorothy, Tribute

Janet Jackson as Carmen More.... Nia Long as "Carmen Jones" Beyonce as 'Carmen Jones' Rhianna as 'Carmen Jones" Zoe Saldana as Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen Jones Dorothy's Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  At 6719 Hollywood Blvd. Actress and Dancer - Julia Belafonte (l) , Honorary Mayor of Hollywood - Johnny Grant, Mayor of Los Angeles - Tom Bradley, Actor - Sidney Poitier.

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Dorothy's apartment was crammed full of health foods, vitamins and iron.  She is seen here with her secretary Verda Cleveland. Beauty blessed her,but disaster was her constant companion. Despite rumours at the time, Dorothy and Lena were not rivals...Here is Lena with her husband at the Premier of the 1954 film 'Carmen Jones'. w / Vivian and Otto A movie was suppose to happen starring Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando and Dorothy Dandridge.  Both men were to vie for Dorothy in the film.  The project never came to fruition.  That would have been a great movie! Jack Denison Dorothy had regrets that she did not have a baby with Otto.  Otto did not want a child together, but still she could have had a child with him had she put her selfless ambitions aside.  Dorothy cared more about his career than her own desires to have a child with him. Dorothy's Foot Injury A pr