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Dorothy: It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.
Dorothy: If I were white, I could capture the world.... (more Dorothy Dandridge quotes)
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6719 Hollywood Boulevard.
Her favorite food was chitterlings and greens, which she ate only once a week.
She was first choice for the role of Cleopatra but ultimately the role went to Elizabeth Taylor.
Madame Sul-Te-Wan was not Dorothy's real life grandmother as is often rumored. It is suggested that this rumor started because she played her grandmother in the film "... (more Dorothy Dandridge trivia)
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Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills |
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Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy by Dorothy Dandridge and Earl Conrad |
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Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography by Donald Bogle |