Introducing Dorothy Dandridge occurs as television motion-picture show directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed all over the span of two or three weeks within early 1999, the picture was aired in the United States on August 14, 1999.

Dorothy Dandridge (played by Academy Award winner Halle Berry) was a Hollywood trailblazer. The caring sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the foremost African-American woman ever nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, however a thrilling stage chanteuse & dancer was forbidden to possibly enter a cabaret & indicate rooms she performed inside except from either a stage. Every bit portrayed by Halle Berry, world health organization shepherded Dandridge's story to the screen, Dandridge occurs as sure enough, insistent star world health organization battled racist studios & Jim Crow laws to maintain her dignity in public when stumbling across the personal life marked by bad relationships & abusive lovers. Berry gives her better performance up to now, brimming determinedly & guts offstage, charming audiences by using the slinky, certainly moves of a nightspot veteran onstage, & convincingly "becoming" Dandridge within spectacular re-creations form.

Halle Berry received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress around the Miniseries or even the Moving-picture show.

Cast From The Film
Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge Brent Spiner as Earl Mills Klaus Maria Brandauer as Otto Preminger Obba Babatundé as Harold Nicholas as Obba Babatunde Loretta Devine as Ruby Dandridge Cynda Williams as Vivian Dandridge LaTanya Richardson as Auntie Tamara Taylor as Geri Nicholas William Atherton as Darryl Zanuck D.B. Sweeney as Jack Denison Don Gettinger as Hotel Clerk Nicholas Hormann as Oscar Emcee Sharon Brown as Etta Jones Darrian C Ford as Fayard Nicholas