Nancy Carroll

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street. Halle Berry played Dandridge in the made for TV movie, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). She returned to the stage in the 1950s, and was found dead of a heart attack after failing to show up for a performance. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6719 Hollywood Blvd. In the following year, she starred in the televison version of The Egg and I. She is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. Carroll retired from films in 1938, but starred in the early television series The Aldrich Family in 1950. Modern analysts believe that she may have suffered from manic depression.

In 1930 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Devil's Holiday. In 1965, Dandridge was found dead in her home of an overdose of Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant. One of them, Easy Come, Easy Go, made her a star. In 1957 she made Island in the Sun and in 1959 Porgy and Bess. In 1928 she made eight films. Despite the nomination, she had to go to Italy to make her next movie, Tamango, in 1956. Born Ann Veronica LaHiff in New York City, she began her acting career in Broadway musicals, but was a successful talkies actress because her musical background enabled her to play in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Although she made her film debut in 1918 at the age of 14, her second film wasn't until Ladies Must Dress in 1927. For this performance, she received an Academy Award nomination.

Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 - August 6, 1965) was an American actress. In 1954, Dandridge was cast in Carmen Jones, the remake of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. During this period, she starred in several "soundies", video films designed to be displayed on juke boxes, including Paper Doll by the Mills Brothers and Cow Cow Boogie. All of her early roles were stereotypical parts for African American actresses, but her singing ability brought her popularity in nightclubs around the country. She did not receive another role until 1940, when she appeared in Four Shall Die.

Her first on-screen appearance was as an extra in a 1935 Our Gang short, Teacher's Beau. Dorothy first important role was a small part in the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races in 1937. Dandridge began singing in her church's choir and, with the prodding of her mother, moved to Hollywood. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 - September 8, 1965) was an American actress.