Dorothy Dandridge, Angel Face

'Marco Polo'  as Indian princess 'Empress Zaire'. In the July 1962 issue of EBONY magazine, it mentions that the movie 'Marco Polo'  ( Raoul Levy, Director) was a finished project.  It was finished that year and it was filmed in several locations including Yugoslavia, Bombay and Calcutta.  In the project Dorothy was an Indian princess 'Empress Zaire'. Another film made in Yugoslavia that was based on Don Quixote, she was to portray a circus cashier who motivates an opera star' career. Also, more projects were set for Mexico and Rome.

"I suppose you could say that I basically kind of emotional, and there are some things, such as graduations and your husband being there when your baby is born, that are very important to me. I missed both of those.  My husband was not there when my baby was born and I  did miss my graduation. And I think the only constructive thing I have done about it is instead of crawling in a hole somewhere or dying on a vine, I use it in my acting, which comes out in an emotional way.  If I have a scene to do that is emotional, it is easy for me to grab an emotion, because I already have them there - little hurts." "This is the biggest hurt of all my whole life." Dorothy's daughter Harolyn was born brain-damaged.  When Dorothy could no longer care for her, Harolyn was put into a private home.

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Dead Ringers for Dorothy....or they could portray her in a film. Tyler Collins Carmen Ejogo Jayne Kennedy Overton Jayne Kennedy starred in a film portraying Dorothy Dandridge in the never released movie "The Dorothy Dandridge Story" in 1980. Utimately, the story was produced by HBO and starred another Cleveland native, Halle Berry. Carole Davis

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

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