Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
by Martha Coolidge
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Actor: Brent Spiner, Halle Berry, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Loretta Devine, Obba Babatund?Director: Martha Coolidge
Brand: HBO HOME VIDEO
Producer: Halle Berry
Producer: Joshua D. Maurer
Producer: Larry Y. Albucher
Producer: Moctesuma Esparza
Writer: Earl Mills
Writer: Scott Abbott
Writer: Shonda Rhimes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
DVD Review: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was very heart wrenching, yet it was very beautiful. Dorothy Dandrige was so talented and beautiful, and she soared in the music and film industry. This movie shows how she suffered through cruelties that eventually wound down to her death at the early age of 41. A sad story beautifully told.
DVD Review: Beautiful!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful movie (quality and all) that has a beautiful message attached not to spoil the movie but once you have seen this it will become very clear what life is all about. Given that this story is one that is very near and dear to me, I must say that this is a powerful movie and the information that is presented is one that will not be forgotten.DVD Review: Dorothy & Halle are One
Summary: 5 Stars
This makes me appreciate Dorothy Dandridge. It's well composed and shot. Halle really pulls out all stops. This is the film that should have gotten the Oscar. It's a real beautifully done classic, not a head scratcher.DVD Review: INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
Summary: 5 Stars
I LIKE THIS MOVIE, I THOUGHT HALLE BERRY DID A GREAT JOB IN HER PERFORMANCE OF DOROTHY. DOROTHY WAS A BEAUTIFUL & TALENTED ACTRESS THAT WAS LIVING IN A TIME WHERE SHE WAS NOT APPRECIATED BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HER SKIN. OVERALL A GOOD MOVIE.DVD Review: Dorothy Dandridge
Summary: 3 Stars
At the beginning I thought... hey this might just be good... oh Halle Berry... though she bears a remarkable resembelence to the real actress(RIP)... By the end of the movie... I had no love left for Halle or her performance... I say pass on this one...
Description of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy struggled with the challenge of her color in Hollywood. She beat out many more famous rivals for the role of ' 'Carmen Jones' ', and became the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (R). Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings.Dorothy Dandridge was a Hollywood trailblazer. A confident sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, but the electrifying stage chanteuse and dancer was forbidden to even enter the nightclubs and show rooms she performed in except from the stage. As portrayed by Halle Berry, who shepherded Dandridge's story to the screen, Dandridge is a sure, insistent star who battled racist studios and Jim Crow laws to maintain her dignity in public while stumbling through a private life marked by bad relationships and abusive lovers. Berry gives her best performance to date, brimming with ambition and moxie offstage, charming audiences with the slinky, sure moves of a nightclub veteran onstage, and convincingly "becoming" Dandridge in dramatic re-creations from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) is sweet and sympathetic as her supportive, lovesick manager, and Klaus Maria Brandauer is, in Dandridge's words, a "big old bulldog" as director Otto Preminger. Director Martha Coolidge balances private troubles with professional milestones and setbacks and pulls no punches showing the institutional racism of late 1950s Las Vegas or the brutality of a vicious alcoholic husband. Originally made for HBO, this drama lacks the big-budget spectacle of traditional Hollywood biographies but offers in its place sharp writing, intelligent direction, and strong, sensitive performances. --Sean Axmaker
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