A small funeral was held, with very few of the ... Halle Berry won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for portraying her in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge—accolades Dandridge herself never had the ...

Berry played Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, in the 1999 biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Keeping Up With ‘Jones’ Dorothy Dandridge was at the height of her career when she posed demurely for a Daily News photographer in Hollywood. Three years earlier, she had scored a personal ...