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Nov 9, 2015
Dorothy Dandridge Did it First
When Halle Berry became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for best actress, for 2001's Monster's Ball , she dedicated her win to Dorothy Dandridge in her acceptance speech, along with and . Younger viewers may not have even known who Dandridge was. Her acting career was short, as was her life, and few of her movies have been canonized among the classics. But for Berry and her fellow Black actresses, Dandridge was a role model and a trailblazer.
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Feb 23, 2017
Wait, WHO Never Won an Oscar?
Movie fans often measure actors' greatness by the number of Academy Awards they have won. But some of the greatest film actors of all time — Richard Burton, Natalie Wood, Albert Finney, Gene Wilder, Marlene Dietrich — were never honored with an Oscar. Here are 14 brilliant performers who you'd think surely should have won — but never did.
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Apr 25, 2023
Harry Belafonte (1927–2023), legendary singer, actor, and activist
Harry Belafonte was the “King of Calypso,” a singer known for his signature song, “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” as well as an actor and a prominent civil rights activist.
