Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge had parallel careers as African-American pop singers, dancers and Hollywood actors. While Horne in the mid-1950s abandoned Hollywood for nightclubs (largely a result of red-baiting, here), Dandridge was nominated for an Oscar for her 1954 role in Carmen Jones. But two failed marriages took their toll on Dandrige. Her fir…
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