Finally my prayers have been answered. I've been praying for So Long that I see Dorothy Dandridge performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. You don't know how thrilled I am to see this clip😢😢😢🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The Lovely Dottie. Like Marilyn, you can see a pain in her eyes. And like Judy, she was "born in a trunk." And like Lena, she had to struggle not to be too black. And like Eartha, she had to try and make it as a chanteuse. She is all of them, and throw in a little Bille too.
@tj...Indeed, she was all, beautiful, elegant and, yes, a true professional. But wait. So was a youthful Ethel Waters, who could fill the house even in carefully guarded economic times with her wonderful delivery, her performance. Many thought she had been trained professionally vocally, which comes out when she sings, "You're a sweetheart."
This was before the heavy nose contours, Big lashes, long wolverine fingernails, and the surgeries. This is beautiful. Men are attracted to Dorothy because her beauty shines through even in all of the pain. She still had an innocent charm.
Please Release More of Dorothy Dandridge performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. She did a few more appearances. One is her singing and saying "Turn up heat and start some cookin. Get..Get..Get Some Loving if some loving comes your way......... I wish someone can find that performance. I would LOOOVE to see it in its entirety 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰
WOW! Dorothy has always my favorite actress and entertainer since I first saw her in "Bright Road" in 1953 when I was 8 years old. I'm 78 years old now and I love her more than ever.🥰
@@robertday3817 Dorothy had financial troubles in the 1960s. She forced to sell her home and place her daughter in a state mental institution. Her daughter's condition required extensive care that she couldn't afford anymore.
I know Soo Many would Love to see her performing on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1952. I think she performed a song called Get You Some Love or it could be called LOVE. I'm not sure. I just remembered watching a small clip from her biography on the Biography Channel in 1999. I wanted to see the whole performance in its entirety. Hopefully they will release it. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Late one evening in Beverly Hills, I happened upon Dandridge leaving Ah Fong's in Beverly Hills as I was entering. She was leaving in the company of her husband, Jack Denison, so I didn't attempt to strike up a conversation, merely smiling as I nodded. Yes, people who've gone through the mill reflect their sad in the face.
I listened to Vivian Dandridge's 1969 album and I was quite impressed. I think Vivian was a better singer than Dorothy. Given a real chance, Vivian would have made her mark.
How big a star Dorothy should have been if not for the racism in Hollywood and the US. Otto Preminger ended the relationship because of her race…wtf!!!
She was the first black star to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar (up against Judy Garland, who lost too). She was married to Harold Nicholas, a black man and a genuine "star" which made them "The" couple. It was actually considered a feather in HIS cap to snag her - think Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt (and many more) all married prominent white men and bore them children (Baker adopted 12 with her white husband). Preminger was no different with Dandridge than Orson Wells was with Eartha or CB DeMille with Gloria Swanson. And, if we are talking about films, Dorothy was a bigger "star" than Lena since, although Lena appeared in dozens of films, she never got to "act" in but one or two, if that many. But I am sure there would be lively disputed by both stars' fans, of which I am one as well. Peace.
@@casey4602 He admitted as much but Dottie had issues too which SHE admitted as well. Dorothy had intimacy issues stemming from sexual abuse at the hand of her lesbian mother's lover.
This is the first time I've seen Dorothy Dandridge perform. Halle did an excellent job playing her in the HBO biopic. I wish the days of low-key glamour would return, women are so overdone now.
Wow! She looks so different here than the way she looked in the movie 'Carmen Jones'. But no matter time she really was a 'natural beauty', a gorgeous woman. It's so nice to see her singing, because I was always thinking of her as an actress rather than a singer,;; even though I have watched that musical 'Carmen Jones' a few times, but in this movie her singing voice is dubbed by a young mezzo soprano Marilyn Horne. Anyway, I believe that besides her gorgeuos physical appearance, she was a very talented woman as actress and singer. She was the first 'african-american' person nominated in a leading role for the Academy. She made just one picture with the late great Sidney Poitier: Porgy and Bess, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. However, Sidney Poitier in his autobiography "This Life" was not very kind, receptive of her ability as an actress. I don't know why, but to each his own.
Yes, I remember that. I believe he said "admittedly limited tools" whatever that was supposed to mean. It wasn't limited tools that garnered her the 1st Oscar Nomination for an Actress or Actor in the Leading Actor category for an African American. I look at the contrast between Carmen and the very elegant, sophisticated Margo Seaton, in her next movie "Island in the Sun", and it's hard to believe it's the same actress She was also the 1st Actress, or Actor to sign a Star Only contract with a major studio "20 Century Fox" due to her success in" Carmen" I think she looks different in this clip because she was in her late 30s as opposed to her early 30s when she made "Carmen Jones" Still beautiful.
That's interesting to read about Poitier, as I crossed Beverly Drive at the same time as he, stopping only to exchange niceties briefly. He was cordial and had the mitts of a football player, I thought. O J Simpson was just as cordial. So, it was a shock reading his name linked to that horrifying murder later
Interesting while browsing RUclips, I came upon a video showing young Jennifer Jones in an ad for "Duel in the sun," and I mistook her to be Dorothy Dandridge. Both, at least in this video, looked like sisters!
Read both of their books. It was "bad" because he was a philanderer but also it was "bad" for him because of the abuse she had suffered under her Lesbian mother, she was frigid. She admits it.
@@robertday3817 Harold Nicholas also abandoned Dorothy and their disabled daughter Harolyn. Harold left the US and didn't return until after Dorothy's death to avoid paying child support. Dorothy struggled to raise Harolyn by herself and eventually was forced to commit her to a state institution. Harold had the nerve to show up to Dorothy's funeral as if he cared. He probably never visited Harolyn at the institution although he lived until the year 2000, 35 years after Dorothy died.
@@samrindge8042 I know all about it. Its not as dramatic as you make it out either, especially where Harold is concerned. Harold did extensive interviews about his philandering so I am not interested in Harold bashing. Dorothy had plenty of issues too.
@@robertday3817 It is not bashing when you hold someone accountable for their actions. I didn't call Harold a derogatory name. I can respect his talents and still acknowledge his faults. Philandering wasn't his only issue. He neglected his wife and daughter. Dorothy had her issues, but she tried to care for their disabled daughter the best she could while Harold was completely devoid of responsibility. He fled the country and had another family. If you are a parent or a spouse I don't know how you can defend that.
@UCeqtC4yUoGGMrRppCjj-Eyw Blah blah. They're all DEAD. I know what you said and I know what I said too. Nice try with the if I am a parent or spouse garbage too, of which I am both. Plenty of couples experience infidelity and divorce, particularly in show business. And Harolyn was never a pauper either. Stop acting as if poor, little Dorothy had no support system because she did. You can't dismiss all of her internal issues onto Harold since as I said Harold ADMITTED to being a poor husband and expressed remorse for it too - many times over the years.
Dorothy was a professional singer. She considered herself more of an actor who sings. She also suffered from extreme stage fright. It's interesting to hear what her actual singing voice sounded like. In some of her recordings she shares some vocal similarities to Billie Holiday.
She and Harry Belafonte, although both singers didn't have the vocal range to sing the operatic score. This was a common practice back then. Marilyn Horne states in her biography that she worked with Dorothy and recorded the songs using her voice as a guide.
I see Dorthy Dandridge singing a very enjoyable song "I Get a Kick out of you." That's all I see. I see no pain in her eyes. I don't know what "struggle not to be too black" means. I think she and Lena Horn were always themselves. I don't think Al Pacino struggles not to be too Italian. I don't believe Andy García, Steven Bauer, or Georg Stanford Brown struggle not to be too Cuban. I don't think George Maharis or George Chakiris struggle not to be too Greek I don't think Dustin Hoffman or Neil Diamond struggle not to be too Jewish. She, nor Eartha Kitt tried to make it as chanteuses. They were chanteuses with very successful careers. Miss Dandridge started singing with the Dandridge Sisters in 1934. She would have been either 11 years old or 12 years old. Both she and Miss Kitt became very well-known chanteuses internationally. Miss Dandridge was one of the presenters and sang the nominated song "Julie" at the 1957 Oscar Ceremonies. They would not have asked someone who was just trying to make it as a chanteuse, to be a presenter or sing the nominated song. I don't think they would have asked a person whom they felt needed some vocal coaching. I don't think people in London, Paris, or Havana Cuba would have paid money to hear her sing if they felt she needed some vocal coaching.
![Dorothy Dandridge - You Do Something to Me, My Heart Belongs to Daddy [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/57lc6sdG8Y0/mqdefault.jpg)
The beautiful Dorothy Dandridge at age 37. Sadly she had only 5 more years of life left.
Finally my prayers have been answered. I've been praying for So Long that I see Dorothy Dandridge performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. You don't know how thrilled I am to see this clip😢😢😢🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She is soooooo beautifulll!!!! She could sing, dance and act!!!!
Check out Vanita Smythe
Her dress is gorgeous and so flattering on her, her jewelry is simple, but elegant, she is just Naturally Beautiful!
Thank you for sharing! 💖
The Lovely Dottie. Like Marilyn, you can see a pain in her eyes. And like Judy, she was "born in a trunk." And like Lena, she had to struggle not to be too black. And like Eartha, she had to try and make it as a chanteuse. She is all of them, and throw in a little Bille too.
Who's Billie?
@@thescreamingelfwillcry409 Yawn.
@Tara Honey Girl please. Whose the victim now? You or Dorothy? If you notice, the "belittled" ones erased their comments.
@@thescreamingelfwillcry409 Billie Holiday.
And a little Ella.
Such a beauty with a lovely voice!
She is drop dead gorgeous💃💃💃🎤
Talented as she was stunning, you cannot help being drawn to her.
This performance was great! Thank you for sharing it. She was a beautiful, elegant lady who was a true professional.
@tj...Indeed, she was all, beautiful, elegant and, yes, a true professional. But wait. So was a youthful Ethel Waters, who could fill the house even in carefully guarded economic times with her wonderful delivery, her performance. Many thought she had been trained professionally vocally, which comes out when she sings, "You're a sweetheart."
This was before the heavy nose contours, Big lashes, long wolverine fingernails, and the surgeries. This is beautiful. Men are attracted to Dorothy because her beauty shines through even in all of the pain. She still had an innocent charm.
She didn’t need that . Girls use that contoured stuff to look like women with these features .
So gorgeous. So talented. So classy. May she continue to rest on and her legacy through film and music live on.💝🙏🏾
Such a tragic life
So much talent
Simply Beautiful 💕💕💕
THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR THIS. MORE MORE MORE DOROTHY. ❤
Beautiful talented gone to soon❤🙏🏽
Please Release More of Dorothy Dandridge performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. She did a few more appearances. One is her singing and saying "Turn up heat and start some cookin. Get..Get..Get Some Loving if some loving comes your way.........
I wish someone can find that performance. I would LOOOVE to see it in its entirety 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰
WOW! Dorothy has always my favorite actress and entertainer since I first saw her in "Bright Road" in 1953 when I was 8 years old. I'm 78 years old now and I love her more than ever.🥰
I have been waiting for so long for new content from Ms Dandridge
Being bankrupt and losing her daughter with a disability and also suffered bad marriages ended it all for Dorothy Dandridge
I could be wrong but I think her daughter survived her albeit in a nursing home.
@@robertday3817 She lost custody of her daughter.
@@bluesugar58 Who told you that? Lost it to whom?
@@robertday3817 Dorothy had financial troubles in the 1960s. She forced to sell her home and place her daughter in a state mental institution. Her daughter's condition required extensive care that she couldn't afford anymore.
@@bluesugar58 Blah blah. Write her biography and send me a copy.
I know Soo Many would Love to see her performing on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1952. I think she performed a song called Get You Some Love or it could be called LOVE. I'm not sure. I just remembered watching a small clip from her biography on the Biography Channel in 1999. I wanted to see the whole performance in its entirety. Hopefully they will release it. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
thank you for the posting never saw her perform so this is a first thank you again🙂
Such a performer!!!
Black royalty ❤
Woman royalty❤
@@maxcornise7204 absolutely🤗
This is a delight to see! I consider myself a history enthusiast l am in awe of seeing videos of legend in action
😍
Legend
Late one evening in Beverly Hills, I happened upon Dandridge leaving Ah Fong's in Beverly Hills as I was entering. She was leaving in the company of her husband, Jack Denison, so I didn't attempt to strike up a conversation, merely smiling as I nodded. Yes, people who've gone through the mill reflect their sad in the face.
She so beautiful
OOOOOOOMMMMMGGGGGG
Real class
I listened to Vivian Dandridge's 1969 album and I was quite impressed. I think Vivian was a better singer than Dorothy. Given a real chance, Vivian would have made her mark.
She was another talented, used by the wrong people that led to a tragic end, so sad
How big a star Dorothy should have been if not for the racism in Hollywood and the US.
Otto Preminger ended the relationship because of her race…wtf!!!
She was the first black star to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar (up against Judy Garland, who lost too). She was married to Harold Nicholas, a black man and a genuine "star" which made them "The" couple. It was actually considered a feather in HIS cap to snag her - think Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt (and many more) all married prominent white men and bore them children (Baker adopted 12 with her white husband). Preminger was no different with Dandridge than Orson Wells was with Eartha or CB DeMille with Gloria Swanson. And, if we are talking about films, Dorothy was a bigger "star" than Lena since, although Lena appeared in dozens of films, she never got to "act" in but one or two, if that many. But I am sure there would be lively disputed by both stars' fans, of which I am one as well. Peace.
@@robertday3817 Harold Nicholas was a cad and treated Dorothy like dirt.
@@casey4602 He admitted as much but Dottie had issues too which SHE admitted as well. Dorothy had intimacy issues stemming from sexual abuse at the hand of her lesbian mother's lover.
@@robertday3817 it’s funny bc I see black people saying mixed don’t count but it dose when they want to prove a point .
I was in love with her automatically by watching her in mostly black movies didn't get the credit she deserved
This is the first time I've seen Dorothy Dandridge perform. Halle did an excellent job playing her in the HBO biopic. I wish the days of low-key glamour would return, women are so overdone now.
I'm a Marilyn Monroe fan, but Norma Jean never had anything on Dorothy Dandridge who had mad skills. RIP both.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Wow! She looks so different here than the way she looked in the movie 'Carmen Jones'. But no matter time she really was a 'natural beauty', a gorgeous woman. It's so nice to see her singing, because I was always thinking of her as an actress rather than a singer,;; even though I have watched that musical 'Carmen Jones' a few times, but in this movie her singing voice is dubbed by a young mezzo soprano Marilyn Horne. Anyway, I believe that besides her gorgeuos physical appearance, she was a very talented woman as actress and singer. She was the first 'african-american' person nominated in a leading role for the Academy. She made just one picture with the late great Sidney Poitier: Porgy and Bess, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe. However, Sidney Poitier in his autobiography "This Life" was not very kind, receptive of her ability as an actress. I don't know why, but to each his own.
Yes, I remember that. I believe he said "admittedly limited tools" whatever that was supposed to mean. It wasn't limited tools that garnered her the 1st Oscar Nomination for an Actress or Actor in the Leading Actor category for an African American. I look at the contrast between Carmen and the very elegant, sophisticated Margo Seaton, in her next movie "Island in the Sun", and it's hard to believe it's the same actress She was also the 1st Actress, or Actor to sign a Star Only contract with a major studio "20 Century Fox" due to her success in" Carmen" I think she looks different in this clip because she was in her late 30s as opposed to her early 30s when she made "Carmen Jones" Still beautiful.
@@1234pouvez Jade, I totally agree with you.
That's interesting to read about Poitier, as I crossed Beverly Drive at the same time as he, stopping only to exchange niceties briefly. He was cordial and had the mitts of a football player, I thought. O J Simpson was just as cordial. So, it was a shock reading his name linked to that horrifying murder later
Are you trying to say she looks bad? She looks gorgeous here?!?
Interesting while browsing RUclips, I came upon a video showing young Jennifer Jones in an ad for "Duel in the sun," and I mistook her to be Dorothy Dandridge. Both, at least in this video, looked like sisters!
She was a siren..had the bad relationship with the younger Nicholas brother. Stuff happens in a lifetime
Read both of their books. It was "bad" because he was a philanderer but also it was "bad" for him because of the abuse she had suffered under her Lesbian mother, she was frigid. She admits it.
@@robertday3817 Harold Nicholas also abandoned Dorothy and their disabled daughter Harolyn. Harold left the US and didn't return until after Dorothy's death to avoid paying child support. Dorothy struggled to raise Harolyn by herself and eventually was forced to commit her to a state institution. Harold had the nerve to show up to Dorothy's funeral as if he cared. He probably never visited Harolyn at the institution although he lived until the year 2000, 35 years after Dorothy died.
@@samrindge8042 I know all about it. Its not as dramatic as you make it out either, especially where Harold is concerned. Harold did extensive interviews about his philandering so I am not interested in Harold bashing. Dorothy had plenty of issues too.
@@robertday3817 It is not bashing when you hold someone accountable for their actions. I didn't call Harold a derogatory name. I can respect his talents and still acknowledge his faults. Philandering wasn't his only issue. He neglected his wife and daughter. Dorothy had her issues, but she tried to care for their disabled daughter the best she could while Harold was completely devoid of responsibility. He fled the country and had another family. If you are a parent or a spouse I don't know how you can defend that.
@UCeqtC4yUoGGMrRppCjj-Eyw Blah blah. They're all DEAD. I know what you said and I know what I said too. Nice try with the if I am a parent or spouse garbage too, of which I am both. Plenty of couples experience infidelity and divorce, particularly in show business. And Harolyn was never a pauper either. Stop acting as if poor, little Dorothy had no support system because she did. You can't dismiss all of her internal issues onto Harold since as I said Harold ADMITTED to being a poor husband and expressed remorse for it too - many times over the years.
Dorothy gets a kick out of everyone
She’s stunningly beautiful, but her voice has some limits. Needed some vocal coaching cause definitely had potential.
Dorothy was a professional singer. She considered herself more of an actor who sings. She also suffered from extreme stage fright. It's interesting to hear what her actual singing voice sounded like. In some of her recordings she shares some vocal similarities to Billie Holiday.
EMOTIONAL
Lots of a light colored TV makeup on Dot's face.
It makes you wonder why she. didn't get to do her own vocals in Carmen Jones.
She and Harry Belafonte, although both singers didn't have the vocal range to sing the operatic score. This was a common practice back then. Marilyn Horne states in her biography that she worked with Dorothy and recorded the songs using her voice as a guide.
Wow, she looks way different here. Kittenesques gone.
Are you confusing her with Eartha Kitt?
She looks gorgeous here… what is you even talking about?
I see Dorthy Dandridge singing a very enjoyable song "I Get a Kick out of you." That's all I see. I see no pain in her eyes. I don't know what "struggle not to be too black" means. I think she and Lena Horn were always themselves. I don't think Al Pacino struggles not to be too Italian. I don't believe Andy García, Steven Bauer, or Georg Stanford Brown struggle not to be too Cuban. I don't think George Maharis or George Chakiris struggle not to be too Greek I don't think Dustin Hoffman or Neil Diamond struggle not to be too Jewish. She, nor Eartha Kitt tried to make it as chanteuses. They were chanteuses with very successful careers. Miss Dandridge started singing with the Dandridge Sisters in 1934. She would have been either 11 years old or 12 years old. Both she and Miss Kitt became very well-known chanteuses internationally. Miss Dandridge was one of the presenters and sang the nominated song "Julie" at the 1957 Oscar Ceremonies. They would not have asked someone who was just trying to make it as a chanteuse, to be a presenter or sing the nominated song. I don't think they would have asked a person whom they felt needed some vocal coaching. I don't think people in London, Paris, or Havana Cuba would have paid money to hear her sing if they felt she needed some vocal coaching.
@Jade...Thank you so much. I agree with everything you've said.
She doesn’t even look like a real human she is doja cat y’all need to actually wake up
She had beauty but not a singing voice.