Amazon.com description: Product Description: "In 1955 Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best performance by an Actress for her starring role in the Otto Preminger film Carmen Jones. From her early years as an entertainer in churches, her singing career as one of the famous Dandridge Sisters, her triumphs in such motion pictures as Porgy and Bess, this intimate biography could only be told by one close to the feisty, beautiful film star. The author, Earl Mills, was Miss Dandridge's personal manager and close friend through the major portion of her career and until her death."