--- title: 'Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)' type: 'film' director: 'Martha Coolidge' released: '1999-01-01' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/introducing-dorothy-dandridge-1999' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172348/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) 1999 · 110 min · Drama, History · United States ## Synopsis Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a 1999 American biographical drama television film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Shonda Rhimes and Scott Abbott, based on the 1991 biography Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in late 1998, the film stars Halle Berry as actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge and premiered on HBO on August 21, 1999. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who had known Dandridge and Otto Preminger. ## Credits - **Director:** [Martha Coolidge](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-coolidge) - **Screenplay:** [Shonda Rhimes](https://cinepixo.com/people/shonda-rhimes), [Scott Abbott](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-abbott) - **Original Music Composer:** [Elmer Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-bernstein) - **Editor:** [Alan Heim](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-heim) ## Cast - [Cynda Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/cynda-williams) as Vivian Dandridge - [William Atherton](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-atherton) as Darryl F. Zanuck - [Kerri Randles](https://cinepixo.com/people/kerri-randles) as Marilyn Monroe - [Halle Berry](https://cinepixo.com/people/halle-berry) as Dorothy Dandridge - [Obba Babatundé](https://cinepixo.com/people/obba-babatunde) as Harold Nicholas - [Brent Spiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/brent-spiner) - [Loretta Devine](https://cinepixo.com/people/loretta-devine) as Ruby Dandridge - [Klaus Maria Brandauer](https://cinepixo.com/people/klaus-maria-brandauer) as Otto Preminger - [Sharon Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/sharon-brown-2) as Etta Jones ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/introducing-dorothy-dandridge-1999 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1503830); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.