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oldhollywood:

Dorothy Dandridge on the set of Porgy and Bess (1959, dir. Otto Preminger) 

“Dandridge was a staggeringly beautiful actress. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, in an upper-middle-class family. In the late 1940s or early 1950s, one of her uncles died and the family went to Augusta, Georgia, for the funeral. She described the utter terror she felt in that small Southern city – the looks the people gave her, the comments they made, the blatant racism and hatred she encountered there.”

-photographer Phil Stern (via)

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auntada:

Dorothy Dandridge with beauty pageant contestants.

Los Angeles, California

1946

Clyde Woods, photographer

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vintagebeauties:

Dorothy with Harry Belafonte in Bright Road

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brandos:

dorothy dandridge | requested by batarangs 

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