Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, “D...-”
for threatre, drama, social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational art for the studio.

Dorothy Dandridge
b. 11-9-1922; Cleveland, Ohio
d. 9-8-1965; West Hollywood, California

Dorothy Dandridge was the first black woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award (1954, Carmen Jones). Dandridge's movie debut was in the Marx Brother's A Day at the Races; she was also in the film musical Porgy and Bess.

• Everything and Nothing : The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy

Bebe Daniels, née Phyllis
b. 1-14-1901; Dallas, Texas
d. 3-16-1971; England

Bebe Daniels, a popular star of both silent movies and early talkies, was also a notable radio and television personality in England. One of her first roles was “Dorothy Gale” at age nine in a 1910 short film version of The Wizard of Oz; she also appeared in the musical “Dixiana”.

Zena Dare, née Florence Hariette Zena Dones
b. 2-4-1887; London, England
d. 3-11-1965

Zena Dare played ‘Mrs. Higgins’ in “My Fair Lady” at Drury Lane's Theatre Royal for five and a half years, beginning in 1958.

Marion Davies
b. 1-3-1897; Brooklyn, NY
d. 9-23-1961; Hollywood

Bette Davis
b. 4-5-1908; Lowell, MA
d. 10-6-1989

• Movie Star Bette Davis /LIFE® Cover, Jan. 23, 1939

Delores del Rio
née María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete
b. 8-3-1905; Durango, Mexico
d. 4-11-1983; California

Delores del Rio, beginning in silent films, starred in Hollwood and in Mexican films through the 1960s. Her last film was The Children of Sanchez, 1979.

Ruby Dee
neé Ruby Ann Wallace
b. 10-27-1924; Cleveland, OH

Ruby Dee, an actress whose career crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, is also a poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist.

• That Man of Mine, Musical Poster
• Black History posters

Marlene Dietrich
b. 12-28-1901; Berlin, Germany
d. 5-6-1992; Paris

Marie Dorval
b. 1-6-1798; Lorient, France
d. 5-20-1849

French actress Marie Dorval and novelist George Sand were close friends; they collaborated on a play, and when Dorval died Sand supported her grandchildren. The poster is of Marie Dorval in Victor Hugo's Marion Delorme.

• Marie Dorval: France's Theatrical Wonder

Billie Dove
née Bertha Bohny
b. 5-14-1903; NYC
d. 12-31-1997; California

Actress Billie Dove started her show business career as a model to help support her family, became a member of the Ziegfeld Follies at age 15, then moved to Hollywood for silent film stardom in the early 1920s. She was engaged to Howard Hughes and was a pilot, poet and painter.

FYI - Dove inspired jazz singer Billie Holiday's stage name.

• The Black Pirate

Marie Dressler
née Leila Marie Koerber
b. 11-9-1868; Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
d. 7-28-1934; Santa Barbara, California

Marie Dressler, a plain featured woman with a robust, full-figure, became Hollywood’s number one box-office attraction after age 60, and stayed on top until her death at age 65.

She won the 1930-31 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Min and Bill, co-starring with Wallace Beery.

• The Black Pirate

Juliette Drouet
b. 4-10-1806; Fougères, Brittany, France
d. 5-11-1883; Paris

Juliette Gauvain, orphaned at a very young age and educated in a religious boarding school, took the last name Drouet when she started acting, from the uncle who raised her. In 1833 she met Victor Hugo and became his lifelong companion.

• My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833-1882

Eleanora Duse
b. 10-3-1858; Vigevano, Italy
d. 4-21-1924; Pittsburgh, PA - touring in US (pneumonia)

Eleanora Duse was the first woman on cover of TIME Magazine.

Jeanne Duval
b. c. 1820, Jacmel, Haiti
d. c. 1862-1870; Paris, France

Actress and dancer Jeanne Duval was the Creole mistress of French poet and artist Charles Baudelaire. Duval was painted by Édouard Manet in 1862.