Dorothy Dandridge, Angel Face

Earl Mills was Dorothy Dandridge's manager and friend during her successful professional life.  He celebrated victories with her and suffered with her when things were tough.  Their relationship often bordered on the romantic according to Earl.  Geri Branton, Dorothy's best friend disagrees with that. Earl wrote this biography as a labor of love.  Earl's love shines through for Dorothy in this biography. Birth Name: Dorothy Jean Dandridge DOB: November 9, 1922 Birth Place: Cleveland, Ohio "In the black ghetto there is a saying that black is disliked by two races; the white and the black." - Earl Mills.   So true, especially today.  Dorothy was born with what turned out to be two curses - she was light and she was beautiful. Those two curses gave her both triumph and tragedy.   Earl Mills with Geri Branton In this book Earl describes himself as Dorothy's manager, close friend and lover for many

Walter Leavy w/ Earl

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

w/ Ed Sullivan w/ her secretary Veada Cleveland April 29 1957, Dorothy polishes up on her French with help of Michel Thomas while taking a rest at Antibes, on the French Rivera, before starting a new movie.  They are shown near the Eden Rock swimming pool at Antibes. w/ Donald Mills of  the 'Mills Brothers' Taking a break while doing the movie 'Tamango' (April 27, 1957)  London, 1959 Waterlloo Station (March 30, 1959) London Airport (April 11, 1956) wearing Edwardian Style veil over hat. West Berlin Germany (May 7, 1959) Here in the background you can see her taste in decor.  Ebony magazine (Ebony Jume 1962 issue) did a spread of her home as well.  http://coppercoloredgal.blogspot.com/2011/11/httpwww.html  She