Sexual Astrology - DVD : Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

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starring: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé, Loretta Devine directed by: Martha Coolidge See Larger Image List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $5.99 You Save: $3.99 (40%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $2.99 Third Party New Price: $3.97 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780783116747 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0783116748 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 08, 2000 Running Time: 120 minutes Sales Rank: 11320 Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1999 Related Items: The Josephine Baker Story Carmen Jones Lady Sings the Blues Miss Evers' Boys The Tuskegee Airmen see more Editorial Review: Description: An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy struggled with the challenge of her color in Hollywood. She beat out many more famous rivals for the role of ' 'Carmen Jones' ', and became the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (R). Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Amazon.com: Dorothy Dandridge was a Hollywood trailblazer. A confident sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, but the electrifying stage chanteuse and dancer was forbidden to even enter the nightclubs and show rooms she performed in except from the stage. As portrayed by Halle Berry, who shepherded Dandridge's story to the screen, Dandridge is a sure, insistent star who battled racist studios and Jim Crow laws to maintain her dignity in public while stumbling through a private life marked by bad relationships and abusive lovers. Berry gives her best performance to date, brimming with ambition and moxie offstage, charming audiences with the slinky, sure moves of a nightclub veteran onstage, and convincingly 'becoming' Dandridge in dramatic re-creations from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) is sweet and sympathetic as her supportive, lovesick manager, and Klaus Maria Brandauer is, in Dandridge's words, a 'big old bulldog' as director Otto Preminger. Director Martha Coolidge balances private troubles with professional milestones and setbacks and pulls no punches showing the institutional racism of late 1950s Las Vegas or the brutality of a vicious alcoholic husband. Originally made for HBO, this drama lacks the big-budget spectacle of traditional Hollywood biographies but offers in its place sharp writing, intelligent direction, and strong, sensitive performances. --Sean Axmaker Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - so sad towards the end of her tragic,beautiful life,she finally realizin EARL MILLS truly loved her,just to die,R.I.P. BEAUTIFUL BEYOND WORDS DORO WAS AND NUFF SAID INSIDE "AND OUT"BOTH THE WHOLE SEXY SYMBOL PKGE.AMAZING TALENTED CAN MOVE BEAUTIFUL BELLA MAMITA FO SURE. HALLE "ALMOST LOOK EXACTLY: LIKE HER THE SKIN HAIR PERFECTO LIKE HOW D.D. WORN IT THRU N THRU,she was a great actress in this tragedy so sad she was way too young,to die like she did i know she was NOT trying to kill self,she was with HER AGENT/TRUE MAN REAL MAN WHO LOVED HER FOR"JUST HER'NOTHING MORE" who even ... Read More Rating: - Halle and Dorothy are practically the same person! Halle Berry and her role model, Dorothy Dandridge have a striking resemblance to one another. Dandridge's best friend, Gerri Benton, has said this, and so have many other people. But Berry's resemblance to Dandridge isn't even the half. Their lives parallel in more ways than one. Both Berry and Dandridge had to do some extreme things to acquire certain roles (Berry had to literally not bathe for ten days, visit crack houses and talk to drug addicts for her to obtain her role in "Jungle Fever" ... Read More Rating: - Love Dorothy Dandridge I love both Dorothy Dandridge and Halle Berry. I have "Carmen" in which Dorothy stars so I was eager to see how Halle Berry handled the role. Halle did a wonderful job and the resemblance is astonishing! I feel the movie followed Dorothy's life to the letter and would recommend this movie for anyone who loves either of these two actresses. Rating: - Sad story This poor women went through so much pain and heartache during her life. I can't believe how ignorant people where then about skill color....I hate to say it but many people still are! American's are in the dark ages when it comes to equality for all. We should look to Europe for help....they are far more progressive! Rating: - again impressed I continue to be amazed at the quality and speed of my transactions with Amazon --- thank you. see more Browse for similar items by category: Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - General By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Addiction & Alcoholism By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Biography By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Fighting the System By Theme - Drama - Genres - DVD - Video - Underdogs