Dorothy Dandridge, Angel Face

John Demetelin AKA Jack Denison Born: 1912 Died: 1976 Cemetery Memory Gardens Cemetery (Bunkers) 7251 W Lone Mountain Rd Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada United States Nearby grave his Sister, Mary Mary G Demetelin Born: 17 Aug 1914 Died: 1 May 2004 Cemetery Memory Gardens Cemetery (Bunkers) 7251 W Lone Mountain Rd Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada United States

Failed Restaurant Copper Cart Copper Cart was known as a favorite eatery and known for it's prime rib. "Denison was a con-artist who wanted to live off her earnings and have her provide financially for his sinking restaurant businesses. He put a good front, but on their wedding night he was broke." ~ Earl Mills , Dottie's Manager When they wed, Dorothy was earning about $250,000 a year.  Denison was persuasive enough to get his wife to make a series of bad decisions.  Pouring money into his failed restaurants and even sang regularly at his "third-rate" club, a move she knew would drastically reduce her standing in the show business world.  But she did it anyway.  Then, again, heartache entered the picture.  When Dandridge's bank account had been milked dry, the marriage ended. ~ Geri Branton , Dottie's Best Friend The Womanizer Slick and Petty Denison with Beautiful Dorothy Friends of Dorot...

YOU CAN SEE HOW PATHETIC JACK DENISON WAS.  FAST FORWARD TO 11:21. Met a lady through her reaching out to me through FaceBook Messenger.  This is what she shared with me about Jack Denison:  Hi Karmen.   I see that you are the blogger for Dorothy Dandridge.  Amazing all the information you have collected about her marriage to Jack Denison.   A distant cousin of mine, Tina, who discovered me through ancestry dot com,  has been doing research to help find the real parents and grand parents for a guy named David who is half Greek, was adopted and born in Canada in 1958.   Tina sent me the link to your blog after I told her what I’m about to tell you.  To try to make a long story short, DNA testing led her to me because of my relations to Greeks from Canada related to my dad.   My dad met my mom, who was living with her sister in Montreal, while visiting his relatives in Canada in...

"Hollywood's first authentic love goddess of color." Author , Earl Conrad Many of her close friends told her that her autobiography was a disgrace and should be kept quiet ~  Earl Conrad The Tragedies Legally evicted from my showcase home in the Hollywood Hills, lost fortune (due to poor investments in Arizona oil wells), retarded 19 year old daughter returned to me, in court to divorce second husband (Jack Denison)....All of these events converged with paralyzing swiftness, with crisis upon crisis.  At the end, all I wanted was to tale a long walk off Malibu Beach.  My career seemed crushed and over with. Desiring death more than anything.  Pills to pep up.  Pills to pipe down.  Pills taken Benzedrine (dangerous if overdosed).  Dexamil and Dexedrine (appetite deterrents).  Thyroid pills and digitalis.   More on and about the drugs Dorothy took Dorothy used 3 trucks from Bekins Van and Sto...

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 ...