Dorothy Dandridge
Connu pour: Acting
Anniversaire: 1922-11-09
Lieu de naissance: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Aussi connu sous le nom:
Porgy and Bess
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the...
Libération : 1959.06.24Popularité : 8.851
Island in the Sun
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the...
Libération : 1957.06.12Popularité : 3.72
Sun Valley Serenade
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...
Libération : 1941.08.29Popularité : 3.475
Carmen Jones
The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker...
Libération : 1954.10.28Popularité : 9.227
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
Here's a perfect chance to compare and contrast a clutch of the greatest jazz divas in the history of the genre. "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan appears along...
Libération : 2005.01.01Popularité : 2.1
Paper Doll
In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.
Libération : 1942.01.01Popularité : 1.275
Bahama Passage
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the...
Libération : 1941.12.10Popularité : 1.605
Bright Road
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
Libération : 1953.04.17Popularité : 3.468
Tamango
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's...
Libération : 1958.01.24Popularité : 7.116
Happy Go Lucky
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Libération : 1943.01.04Popularité : 5.958
Orchestra Wives
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him,...
Libération : 1942.09.04Popularité : 4.796
It Can't Last Forever
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a...
Libération : 1937.07.15Popularité : 1.226
The Decks Ran Red
A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.
Libération : 1958.10.10Popularité : 4.58
Swing for Your Supper
Dorothy Dandridge sings, featuring Cee Pee Johnson on tom-toms.
Libération : 1941.05.05Popularité : 1.189
Drums of the Congo
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
Libération : 1942.07.17Popularité : 0.904
Blackbird Fantasy
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Billy Mitchell.
Libération : 1942.08.31Popularité : 0.874
Yes, Indeed!
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Four Spirits of Rhythm
Libération : 1941.11.24Popularité : 0.5
Jungle Jig
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Cee Pee Johnson.
Libération : 1941.06.02Popularité : 0.565
Moment of Danger
Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye...
Libération : 1960.01.26Popularité : 4.036
Girl 27
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other...
Libération : 2007.07.27Popularité : 1.386
Remains to Be Seen
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Libération : 1953.05.15Popularité : 3.687
Lady from Louisiana
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...
Libération : 1941.04.22Popularité : 3.208
The Murder Men
Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred
Libération : 1961.01.01Popularité : 1.412
Sundown
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Libération : 1941.10.31Popularité : 3.258
Going Places
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Libération : 1938.12.31Popularité : 2.216
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...
Libération : 1942.02.13Popularité : 5.328
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the...
Libération : 1938.05.14Popularité : 1.77
Hit Parade of 1943
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle...
Libération : 1943.03.26Popularité : 3.544
Atlantic City
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...
Libération : 1944.09.15Popularité : 4.586
A Day at the Races
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a...
Libération : 1937.06.11Popularité : 11.189
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this...
Libération : 2001.10.07Popularité : 2.643
The Harlem Renaissance
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...
Libération : 2004.01.01Popularité : 1.462
Four Shall Die
Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...
Libération : 1940.10.15Popularité : 2.271
The Harlem Globetrotters
All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with...
Libération : 1951.05.30Popularité : 4.532
Tarzan's Peril
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
Libération : 1951.03.13Popularité : 1.982
Since You Went Away
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind...
Libération : 1944.06.30Popularité : 3.854
Ebony Parade
Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".
Libération : 1970.01.01Popularité : 0.602
Irene
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate....
Libération : 1940.04.23Popularité : 4.431
Easy Street
Dorothy Dandridge performing "Easy Street".
Libération : 1941.02.20Popularité : 0.654
Lazybones
Hoagy Carmichael at the piano sings the title song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Dancing by Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray.
Libération : 1941.02.20Popularité : 0.742
Pillow to Post
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale....
Libération : 1945.06.09Popularité : 4.049
Cow-Cow Boogie
Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".
Libération : 1942.03.27Popularité : 0.721
It's Black Entertainment
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...
Libération : 2002.02.08Popularité : 2.069
Lucky Jordan
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
Libération : 1942.11.16Popularité : 4.19
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame...
Libération : 2003.06.24Popularité : 1.306
Night in New Orleans
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Libération : 1942.07.01Popularité : 4.267
Moo Cow Boogie
Stepin Fetchit introduces a band which plays several numbers, including "Cow Cow Boogie" and a swing version of "Rigoletto." Dorothy Dandridge...
Libération : 1943.01.01Popularité : 1.767
Swingtime Jamboree
Compilation film of various African-American performers and acts.
Libération : 1946.01.01Popularité : 1.559
A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat
An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.
Libération : 1942.11.11Popularité : 0.629
International Revels
Variety stage entertainment musical short
Libération : 1970.01.01Popularité : 0.292
Teacher's Beau
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
Libération : 1935.04.27Popularité : 1.519