Dorothy Dandridge Movies

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sidney Poitier

A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Belafonte

Here's a perfect chance to compare and contrast a clutch of the greatest jazz divas in the history of the genre. "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan appears along...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sarah Vaughan

In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Madeleine Carroll

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Montgomery

A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Martin

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Mason

Dorothy Dandridge sings, featuring Cee Pee Johnson on tom-toms.

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A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ona Munson

A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Four Spirits of Rhythm

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A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Billy Mitchell.

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A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Cee Pee Johnson.

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Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Trevor Howard

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Allyson

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peter Mark Richman

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

Genre: War

Cast: Bruce Cabot

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dick Powell

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Virginia Grey

When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Carroll

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Constance Moore

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dustin Hoffman

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cab Calloway

Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Niel Webster

Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.

Genre: Action

Cast: Lex Barker

All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Gomez

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudette Colbert

Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Count Basie

Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Neagle

Dorothy Dandridge performing "Easy Street".

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Hoagy Carmichael at the piano sings the title song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Dancing by Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray.

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Cast: Hoagy Carmichael

With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ida Lupino

Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vanessa Williams

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Ladd

Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Preston Foster

Compilation film of various African-American performers and acts.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

Stepin Fetchit introduces a band which plays several numbers, including "Cow Cow Boogie" and a swing version of "Rigoletto." Dorothy Dandridge...

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An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

Cosmopolitan mixture of variety acts are presented in an international café: Spanish dance, Hawaiian song, Italian street singer, Cossack...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carl Switzer

Dorothy Dandridge along with CeePee Johnson and his Orchestra perform "A Jig in the Jungle."

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Dandridge