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Dorothy Dandridge
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Actor Born: November 9, 1923 in Cleveland, OH Death: September 8, 1965 in Hollywood, CA Biography:African American actress, singer, dancer "Dorothy Dandridge", the daughter of stage and screen actress "Ruby Dandridge", began performing professionally in the song-and-dance duo "The Wonder Children" with her sister Vivian at age four; they toured parts of the South, performing at churches, schools, and social gatherings. In the 1930s her family relocated to Los Angeles, and she and her sister appeared briefly in the Marx brothers comedy "A Day at the Races" (1937). In their teens she and her sister enlisted a third singer and formed a new group, the Dandridge Sisters. They worked with the "Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra" and "Cab Calloway", appeared at the Cotton Club, and turned up with "Louis Armstrong" and "Maxine Sullivan" in the film "Going Places" (1939). Dandridge started performing solo in the early '40s, appearing in a string of musical shorts made in 1941 and 1942; she also performed in... Full Biography
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