Dorothy Dandridge Memorabilia Vendors

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    The following is a list of vendors who have Dorothy Dandridge memorabilia.

 (Full Disclosure: This list was originally compiled for the Netscape Open Directory Project (also known as the dmoz.org directory), but to link to items directly is against the Project's guidelines. To stay in compliance, I removed the page from the Netscape Open Directory Project -- but it seemed a waste to remove it from the Internet completely. So here's the list "re-created" for my own page -- with a few new items. Enjoy!) 

NOTE: Dorothy Dandridge items that are more readily available are featured on the Presenting Dorothy Dandridge page.

• Black Cast Movie Posters - Specific Items of Interest: Tomango, 1959, Dorothy Dandridge, title card @ 70., 5 scene cards with Dandridge at 40 each, one without at 5; and Island in the Sun, 1957, 14x36, Dorothy Dandridge, 100.
• Black Satin Collectibles, Online Black Americana Auction Catalog - Specific Items of Interest (some items already sold; click links for full pictures): 

  	Dorothy Dandridge - "Carmen Jones" poster E-mail auctions@blacksatincollectibles.com for more information
  	Dorothy Dandridge - "Decks Ran Red" Movie Poster E-mail auctions@blacksatincollectibles.com for more information
  	Dorothy Dandridge - "Decks Ran Red" Movie Half-Sheet E-mail auctions@blacksatincollectibles.com for more information
  	Dorothy Dandridge - Harry Belafonte "Island In The Sun" Lobby Card E-mail auctions@blacksatincollectibles.com for more information
  	Dorothy Dandridge - "Malaga" Lobby Card E-mail auctions@blacksatincollectibles.com for more information
  	Dorothy Dandridge, Curt Jurgens - " Tamango" - Half Sheet E-mail auctions@blacksatincollectibles.com for more information
  	Dorothy Dandridge - 8" x 10" B & W Photo ©1960 picture Movie still from "Porgy and Bess"
  	Dorothy Dandridge - "Bright Road" Lobby Card
  	'55 Academy Award Program/Dandridge Best Actress Nominee/Carmen Jones
  	Dorothy Dandridge, et al - Press Photo for Academy Awards Ceremony, 1955

• Compilations and Documentaries with Swing Dance and Music - Specific Item of Interest: Fats Waller and Friends, 1941-1946, 29 minutes, $19.95: In addition to the great musical numbers, this video features some terrific hoofing, with Cook and Brown, Tip, Tap and Toe and The Three Chefs, and also includes appearances by Mabel Lee, Dorothy Dandridge, Tiny Grimes. Fats sings "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose" in his inimitable style of innuendo. To order, go to the SavoyStyle Swing Dance Shop.
• Discount Video inc: Black Artists of the Silver Screen - Specific Item of Interest: - Videos from classic movies and television shows of yesterday, including Music And Comedy Masters (Volume Five) which has "Sepian Swing" with Cab Calloway and The King Cole Trio; "Sepia Stars on Parade," with Herb Jefferies, Fats Waller, Bill Robinson, Dorothy Dandridge, The Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole and Louis Jordan; and "Rhapsody in Black and Blue," with Louis Armstrong and Orchestra. 
• Jazz Classics Music Videos at SIVIDEO.COM - Specific Items of Interest: 

    Nat "King" Cole & the Mills Brothers, 37 minutes, $14.95, featuring Dorothy Dandridge, Irving Ashby, Oscar Moore, Ida James, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Joe Comfort and Jack Costanza. Item #BHVM08. 

    Fats Waller & Friends 1941-1946, 29 minutes, $14.95, with Dorothy Dandridge, Bob Howard, Tiny Grims, and Mabel Lee. Featuring Cook & Brown, Dusty Brooks & his Four Tones and The Three Chiefs. Item #BHVM10. 

    Classic Harlem Harmonies, Volume 1, 35 minutes, $14.95, featuring Dorothy Dandridge, Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra, Nobel Sissle & his Orchestra, Sister Rosetta Thorpe with Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra, Skeets Tolbert & his Orchestra and others. Item #BHVM15.

• For even more Dorothy, register (for free!) with FOOTAGE.net, the Stock, Archival & News Footage Network and search several online databases simultaneously, including Historic Films, Film Images (London) Ltd, Footage Hollywood, and Producers Library Service, which produce such results as Dorothy performing in various so-called "soundies"--which were early versions of music videos--including the soundies for "Congo Clambake," "Paper Doll," "Zoot Suit," "Yes Indeed," "Jungle Jig," and "Lazybones," as well as movie previews, called "trailers," for films featuring Dorothy, including Sun Valley Serenade, Bright Road, Porgy and Bess, and Tarzan's Peril (FYI: Most of these soundies and trailers are available on the DVD, Dorothy Dandridge: Singing at Her Best); Dorothy appearing on the May 18, 1952 Ed Sullivan TV show, singing "Do What You Wanna Do" and "Just One of Those Things;" 1954 newsreel footage of the Carmen Jones film premiere; Dorothy appearing on the October 31, 1954 Ed Sullivan TV show, introducing a clip from the Carmen Jones film; Dorothy appearing on the April 3, 1955 Ed Sullivan show, singing "Good for Nothing Joe" and "I Got Rhythm;" Dorothy appearing on the December 13, 1959 Ed Sullivan TV show, singing, "What is This Thing Called Love" and "Baby Baby All the Time;" Dorothy appearing on the February 14, 1960 Ed Sullivan TV show, singing "Love" and "Smooth Operator (I Like It Like That);" Dorothy appearing on the March 27, 1960 Ed Sullivan TV show, singing "I Get A Kick Out of You," "That's All," and "One of Those Things;" and Dorothy's attending a "movie bests" luncheon, shown with actors Dick Powell and Jean Simmons.

• Separate Cinema® - Find out more about the Separate Cinema traveling exhibits of classic African American film posters, and see the Separate Cinema online catalogue to purchase classic film posters featuring Dorothy, including posters for Carmen Jones, Island in the Sun, Malaga, Porgy and Bess, Tamango and Tarzan's Peril. 

Check out the list of DVDs of classic African American films at A Cinema Apart.

For more memorabilia, do a search on "Dorothy Dandridge" at the premier Internet auction site,  eBay!  

See a list of all Dorothy Dandridge Items at Amazon.com

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