Dorothy Dandridge Movies: Top 2 Performances by a Successful Actor



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Porgy and Bess Poster
Porgy and Bess ( 1959) | IMDb: 7
Drama , Music , Romance
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Starring:
Sidney Poitier , Dorothy Dandridge , Sammy Davis Jr. , Pearl Bailey , Brock Peters , Diahann Carroll
Directed by:
Paul Helmick , Otto Preminger
Produced by:
Samuel Goldwyn
Island in the Sun Poster
Island in the Sun ( 1957) | IMDb: 6.1
Drama , Romance
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
Starring:
James Mason , Joan Fontaine , Dorothy Dandridge , Joan Collins , Michael Rennie , Harry Belafonte
Directed by:
Michael Birkett , Robert Rossen , Maggie Unsworth
Produced by:
John Palmer , Ernest Holding , Darryl F. Zanuck