Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1998, the film was aired in the United States on August 21, 1999. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. The film is marketed with the tagline: "Right woman. Right place. Wrong time."

Cast

• Halle Berry — Dorothy Dandridge
• Brent Spiner — Earl Mills
• Klaus Maria Brandauer — Otto Preminger
• Obba Babatundé — Harold Nicholas
• Loretta Devine — Ruby Dandridge
• Cynda Williams — Vivian Dandridge
• LaTanya Richardson — Auntie
• Tamara Taylor — Geri Branton-Nicholas
• William Atherton — Darryl Zanuck
• D. B. Sweeney — Jack Denison
• Don Gettinger — Hotel Clerk
• Nicholas Hormann — Oscar Emcee
• Sharon Brown — Etta Jones
• Darrian C Ford — Fayard Nicholas
• Jon Mack - Ava Gardner
• Kerri Randles - Marilyn Monroe
• Vocalist Wendi Williams provides the singing voice for Dorothy Dandridge

Awards and nominations

2000 Black Reel Awards