Dorothy Dandridge, Angel Face

'You ain't going to work in Mister Charley's kitchen like me. I don't want you to go into service. You are not going to be a scullery maid. We're going to fix it so you be something else than that.' - Ruby to Dorothy 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 (which means Maternal Grandmother 1/2 Spanish and 1/2 West Indian).  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. I had been raised with no man around the house; I had never seen a man shaving; I had never seen a man in his shorts. ~ Dorothy The marriage to Harold almost did not happen.  Dorothy had an interim small romance with a saxophone player named Joe.  Dorothy was at one point hesitant about Harold,  Joe gave Dor

Joe Adams was one of  L.A.'s most popular disc jockeys. Was Ray Charles' personal manager for 45 years.

Fayard taught Harold to dance.  Harold's dance inspiration was not Bojangles or John Bubbles or Astaire?  It was Fayard.

Clarence Muse loved saying he foresaw Dorothy Dandridge's stardom.   Ruby wanted Muse to help her daughters get into the movies.  Clarence told her to forget Hollywood and take her girls back to Cleveland where thy had come from.  According to him her daughters were too light skinned for the movies.   Muse  said this later about Ruby and her daughters, "I paid their first damn money for an apartment they lived in and I never got my $70 back either."

Dorothy thought of herself according to Mills as being less than capable, not productive, almost worthless.  The fact that she was able to give birth to a baby was a genuine miracle. Dorothy with Harolyn - her most prized photo. Dorothy refused to believe that Harolyn's brain damage was incurable  Dorothy felt guilty and depressed because she felt it was her fault that Harolyn was retarded.  That the mental disability was either due to her prolonging the labor waiting on Harold (that never showed up) and / or the use of forceps used on Harolyn's head to remove her from Dorothy. Dorothy teamed up with Jacqueline Kennedy in later years in a concerted effort to help the retarded. At the request of the White House, Dorothy recorded radio messages on behalf of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation along with Dale Rogers Evans, Bette Davis, Pearl Bailey and others. with Harolyn and Ruby For years the tragedy of a retarded child was a bl

American Eskimo Husky, Duke may have looked like this.  Have to re-read all of her books to find out.