Dorothy Dandridge: Where She Died | Visting Her Apartment

Do you remember the talented actress, Dorothy Dandridge? Join me as I bring you to the location of where Dorothy Dandridge passed away, tell you about her last days, show her grave and the mysterious events surrounding her death!! Halle Berry played her in a movie and I felt I wanted to know more about her. Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954).Dandridge also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles. On evening of September 7, 1965, Dandridge spoke by telephone from Los Angeles with friend and former sister-in-law Geraldine "Geri" Branton.[54] Dandridge was scheduled to fly to New York City the next day to prepare for her nightclub engagement at Basin Street East. Branton told biographers that during the long conversation, Dandridge veered from expressing hope for the future, to singing Barbra Streisand's "People" in its entirety, to making this cryptic remark moments before hanging up on her: "Whatever happens, I know you will understand."[9] On the morning of September 8 around 7:15 am, Dandridge telephoned her manager, Earl Mills asking him to reschedule a hospital appointment she had that morning where a cast would be applied to her foot where a tiny bone fracture had occurred in a fall five days earlier. A few minutes later, she called again and requested a further delay and a 10:00 am appointment was scheduled. Her manager Mills received no response when he arrived at her door at the appointed time.[55] It was Hollywood and talent was often temperamental; he left. Several hours later, Dandridge was found naked and unresponsive in her apartment by Mills after he had finally broken in the apartment door using the tire iron from his car.[55] A Los Angeles pathology institute determined that the cause of death was an accidental overdose of the antidepressant imipramine.[56] The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office concluded that she died of a fat embolism resulting from a recently sustained right foot fracture.[57] On September 12, 1965, a private funeral service was held at the Little Chapel of the Flowers. Dandridge was cremated and her ashes interred in the Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park ‐-------------------------------------------------- Subscribe today and follow on Instagram for more pop culture, true crime, filming locations, celebrity graves and so much more!! Instagram:   / inkedbeardsman   Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id... Twitter: https://twitter.com/inkedbeardsman?la... _________________________________________________