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Free admission. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

Screening 1 of 3

Cow-Cow Boogie

Year: 1942
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Runtime: 3 min.
16mm. B&W.

Director: Josef Berne. With: Dorothy Dandridge, Dudley Dickerson.

Digitally restored version courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute.

Screening 2 of 3

Lazybones

Year: 1941
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Runtime: 3 min.
16mm. B&W.

Director: Dudley Murphy. With: Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Dandridge, Peter Ray.

Screening 3 of 3

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Year: 1999
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Runtime: 120 min.
Digital. Color.

Produced and starring Halle Berry, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes, this exciting HBO biopic about Dandridge reintroduced Dandridge to audiences at the turn of the century, cementing her legendary status. Based on an unauthorized biography by Earl Mills, Dandridge’s former manager, the story centers on Dandridge in the 1960s reminiscing on the phone about her career peaks and valleys. When Berry became the first (and still only) Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar a few years later for Monster’s Ball in 2002, she said in her acceptance speech, “This is for Dorothy Dandridge.”

Director: Martha Coolidge. Screenwriters: Shonda Rhimes, Scott Abbott. With: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner.