I read a biograpy of Dorothy Dandridge and she stated that she and Marilyn Monroe studied together in some venue and Dorothy said Marilyn took her work very, very seriously and was disappointed that she wasn't allowed to do more dramatic roles with a fuller range, not just a "dumb blonde".
I always thought she couldn't act, but I think she may have been type cast and not allowed to pursue something more dramatic, kind of like Butterfly McQueen or other Black actresses back them and now.
BET is a bad joke.
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