Many classic stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, and Rita Hayworth, were never recognised by the Academy Awards.

Berry played Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, in the 1999 biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

For my sisters? For our journey?" Berry was just the seventh Black woman ever nominated in the lead actress category at the Oscars, following Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson ...

Dorothy Dandridge: The Musical is a joyous, spectacular song and dance celebration of a gorgeous woman pioneer who dared to dream. It is not a tragedy that she failed to fully realize them.

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For my sisters? For our journey?" Berry was just the seventh Black woman ever nominated in the lead actress category at the Oscars, following Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann ...