Introducing Dorothy Dandridge


Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1998, the film was aired in the United States on August 21, 1999. The teleplay is drawn exclusively from the biography of Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who had known Dandridge and Otto Preminger. The film is marketed with the tagline: "Right woman. Right place. Wrong time."

Cast

released a soundtrack album on August 10, 1999.
  1. Your Red Wagon - Wendi Williams
  2. I Got Rhythm - Wendi Williams
  3. Hep Hop - Bill Elliott
  4. Chattanooga Choo Choo - Wendi Williams
  5. Sportsman's Mambo - Bill Elliott
  6. Somebody - Wendi Williams
  7. Twelve Cylinders - Bill Elliott
  8. You Do Something to Me - Wendi Williams
  9. Zoot Suit For My Sunday Gal - Wendi Williams
  10. That's All - Wendi Williams
  11. Streamliner - Bill Elliott
  12. First Telephone - Elmer Bernstein
  13. Try Again - Elmer Bernstein
  14. No Song - Elmer Bernstein
  15. Dorothy - Elmer Bernstein

    Awards and nominations

2000 Black Reel Awards
2000 Directors Guild of America
2000 Emmy Awards
2000 Golden Globes
2000 Image Awards
2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards