Dorothy Dandridge, Angel Face

Vivian Alferetta Dandridge Born: April 22, 1921 Died: October 21, 1991 Actress, Singer, Pianist Vivian at one time became a strict vegetarian.   Vivian was married five times: Jack Montgomery (Actor) (1942-43), (Top) Warren (Warren Bracken) Warren Bracken (Musician)  (?-?)  Ralph Bledsoe (Musician) (1946-47) Forace Stead (1951-53) (was also Vivian's manager at the time)  Vivian divorced him because of his extreme gambling habits.  She claimed that her house painter husband gambled away most of both of their earnings and even pawned some of their belongings to obtain money for gambling .  The couple married in 1951.  They divorced in 1953.  Vivian was 30 and Forace was 31 at the time.  and Gustav Friedrich (1958-?). All of her marriages ended in divorce.  (Emmett Wallace) She was also romantically linked to actor Emmett Wallace (known as "Babe Wallace") with whom she had a son, Micha...

Ruby Dandridge  ( Ruby Jean Butler)  (March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987)  Actress, acrobat Ruby trained her daughters to sing, dance, perform acrobatics and recite poetry. 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.  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. Ruby was born in Wichita, Kansas.  Learned to sing, dance, do acrobatics, horseback ride.   Appeared in Amos 'n' Andy on both radio and television. Was married to Cyril Dandridge  from 1919 to 1922. Children: Dorothy Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge Grandchildren: Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas, Michael Emmett Wallace 'You ain't going to work in Mister Charley's kitchen like me...