DANDRIDGE DOROTHY: (1922-1965) Lot n° 18

DANDRIDGE DOROTHY: (1922-1965) American actress and singer, the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A good vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph, the original MCA Artists publicity portrait depicting Dandridge in a seductive half-length pose. Signed in blue fountain pen ink across a light area of the image, ´Johnny - Thanks for everything - Sincerely - Dorothy Dandridge´. Scarce. Some very light, minor smudging to the signature and a few very small creases to the corners of the white borders, otherwise VG