{"id":42551,"date":"2017-11-08T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42551"},"modified":"2017-11-07T19:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T00:46:55","slug":"happy-birthday-2-ya-dorothy-dandridge-actress-singer-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42551","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday 2 Ya &#8220;Dorothy Dandridge&#8221; Actress, Singer &#038; Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=42552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42552\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandridge_03-560x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandridge_03-560x567.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandridge_03-768x778.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandridge_03.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dorothy Jean Dandridge<\/strong>, born November 8, 1922, sang at Harlem&#8217;s Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J8aoFWcQaKY\"><strong>Carmen Jones<\/strong><\/a>. Many years passed before the mainstream entertainment industry acknowledged Dandridge&#8217;s legacy. In 1999, Halle Berry played Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/dorothy-dandridge-9542081\">Biography<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ui9XVu4NGv8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy Jean Dandridge, born November 8, 1922, sang at Harlem&#8217;s Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in Carmen Jones. Many years passed before the mainstream entertainment industry acknowledged Dandridge&#8217;s legacy. In 1999, Halle Berry played Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[7812,3234,7809,7808,7811,7810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42553,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551\/revisions\/42553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}