The Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra_Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 -- September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer...Dandridge was the first black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress...She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater...
After many bit parts and a few minor roles, Dandridge landed her first notable film role in Tarzan's Peril (starring Lex Barker) in 1951...
She won her first starring role in 1953, playing a teacher in Bright Road, a low-budget film with a nearly all-black cast, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
In 1954 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones...
In 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999 she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry as Dandridge...
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
She died at age 42 in West Hollywood of an overdose...
You do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me
Tell me, why should it be
You have the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
'Cause you do something to me
That nobody else could do
You do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me
Tell me, why should it be
You got the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
'Cause you do something to me
That nobody else can do
That no one else in the world can do
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The Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra_Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 -- September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer...Dandridge was the first black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress...She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater...
After many bit parts and a few minor roles, Dandridge landed her first notable film role in Tarzan's Peril (starring Lex Barker) in 1951...
She won her first starring role in 1953, playing a teacher in Bright Road, a low-budget film with a nearly all-black cast, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
In 1954 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones...
In 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999 she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry as Dandridge...
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
She died at age 42 in West Hollywood of an overdose...
You do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me
Tell me, why should it be
You have the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
'Cause you do something to me
That nobody else could do
You do something to me
Something that simply mystifies me
Tell me, why should it be
You got the power to hypnotize me?
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
'Cause you do something to me
That nobody else can do
That no one else in the world can do
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