Dead in Hollywood is a true-crime web series of strange and tragic Hollywood deaths.
I always find it so hard to say goodbye when I finish an issue of Dead in Hollywood. I canβt think of a better time to put the finishing touches on Dorothy Dandridgeβs story then on the eve of the Academy Awards. I plan on doing a slideshow on Dandridgeβs life in the near future. Stay tuned and turned on.
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As Dandridge's career rises, she appears on numerous magazine covers. As popular as she was becoming, overtly racist comments and actions follow her the rest of her career. She tells People Today in 1953 that, βTo be a siren of song, one needs more than talent, looks, and voice. One needs understanding of people. At first, I was afraid they wouldnβt like me. Then I realized the first step in that direction was to like them and to assume they would like me.β The magazine refers to her as a βbronze bombshellβ and featured her on the back cover. Soon she'll be making history as the first African-American woman to grace the cover of Life Magazine.
This edit is of a photo of Dorothy Dandridge taken at the popular Cleveland nightclub, Lindsay's Sky Bar, by photographer Frank Kuchirchuk. The photo is part of the Frank Kuchirchuk Collection of Jazz Photography at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, Ohio. Kuchirchuk donated his entire collection of jazz images of nearly 200 photographs, most of which are negatives that have never been seen by the public, and feature such artists as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Anita O'Day performing at the height of their careers. (Oberlin.edu)
Dead in Hollywood: Dorothy Dandridge (Issue #9) zine coming soon.
Rest in power Tab Hunter. π By chance, I posted a variation of this edit on Saturday. Hunter passed away yesterday, June 8, at the age of 86. His partner calls the death βunexpected and sudden.β This photo is of Hunter sharing a laugh with Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood at the Academy Awards.
n 1956, Natalie Wood, then a 17-year-old high school senior, attends the Academy Awards as a best supporting actress nominee for her role in the movie βRebel Without a Cause.β The following year in 1957, Wood attends as a guest with her future husband, Robert Wagner.
