143: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Dorothy Dandridge (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 17)
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Dorothy's Career as a Black Actress
Dorothy was the first black actress to be signed to a major studio star contract since lena horne 13 years earlier. Dorothy would make just one film for twentieth century fox, island in the sun, an ensemble piece about colonialist sex. She'd play a west indies native in love with a white man and share billing with james mason and joan fontaine. A number of vehicles for her that were announced in the trades never got made. Most sad y, a remake of the blue angel with dorothy in the dietrich roll.
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