Visiting Dorothy Dandrige’s Old Apartment and Grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery 

I love it when I see young people know history so that legacies can live on.🥰🕊

She was one of the most gorgeous actress's ever she died way too young. RIP Dorothy Dandrige!

DOROTHY WAS A QUEEN👸🙏🌺🌹

Thank you for respecting your icon🌟✨💥👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

This is beautiful..just like Dorothy.👑🥂💝💅🏿

Rest in peace Dorothy Dandridge. You were an extraordinarily beautiful and talented woman on earth. Thank you for this video.

You are doing a great job young man. I subscribed after I saw your Marvin Gaye home. I am in my sixties. I am so proud of you. Keep up the good work. Side bar issue for health reasons if you are walking alone or by yourself don’t wear a mask. It is not good for you.

She was SUPER PRETTY.....on the lofty level of her peers in Physical BEAUTY.......Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren, Gina Lolobrigita, to name several, women who were almost as FINE OR equally...As DOROTHY DANDRIGE...💜

Beautiful ❤️

Thank you for this video 😢💕 I saw a beautiful picture of her yesterday and got an strange feeling from it 🥺

Beautiful 🌹

We knew the incomparable beauty Ms. Dorothy Dandridge.

Thank you for that

Thank you, she was Gorgeous.

You must remember where you went to dude, that cemetery is famous MM is there too - great vid!!!!

Beautiful apartment & area xx

I've driven by here plenty of times and never knew!

t Thank you for this, wish you could have gone in or at the very lest up to her door. this is important because when you hear of african-american stars you have no ideal how they lived.

She was so beautiful and she’s the original Carmen Jones

she ws so pretty

She had an affair with Otto Preminger. THEN it ended when he got TIRED of her. (At her hey day Preminger bought her a beautiful home).

And a Oscar nominee for her movie Carmen Jones.

Stunning and very talented lady, interesting to see where she lived but I’m sorry, I felt you hadn’t really done your homework, no interesting facts, didn’t really mention her accomplishments and didn’t know where she was buried, well where the cemetery was located, I was looking forward to this but could’ve just been happy with what I had read about her, felt she deserved more! I hope you keep going but please make it worthwhile watching.

Amazing women

Omg 💜💜💜

They say she’s reincarnated as Holly Berry. They also have the same birthday

That’s a beautiful apartment building,..she was by all accounts a very gentle and sweet woman who suffered much in her lifetime,rest in peace dear lady....

She was gorgeous just gorgeous.

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, I WAS BORN IN THE 60S AND IT'S AN HONOR TO SEE A YOUNG MAN WHO CARE TO SHOW THE LIFE OF THESE CELEBRITIES

A beautiful breath taking woman, who died too young. RIP

She was a beautiful back woman

Beautifully done, the background music set the mood; that looks like the auditorium or the Theater department from my high school Hollywood high. Dorothy Dandridge was a stunning black woman, may she Rest In Peace💜🙏🏾🎶🎬🎤

So, Sad.... long lived this I-con of African American Beauty at BEST!. Thanks for this

The El Palacio Apartments are located at 8491-8499 Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood. Dorothy lived in Unit D2.

Wait a minute WHY HAVEN'T ANYONE FIX her plaque!? That just got me a bit upset

You're definitely Awesome Young Man. Thanks for this tribute to the Iconic Dorothy Dandridge.🌹🌹💖

Thank you for remembering Dorothy Dandridge and sharing this video!

Thank you Ms Dorothy !!!

The amount of disrespect- why would someone deface her statue and plaque like that? 😕

She was a classy beautiful women I wish that some of the women of today Can Be classy Like this You don't have to run around Naked Beauty brains and class

She was supposed to have been casted to play Cleopatra before Elizabeth Taylor

Amazing she and her scenery still looks beautiful to this day

Beautiful woman. I remember watching the movie and she was in Las Vegas. And they wouldn’t let her through the front door or let her swim in the pool. So she stuck her foot in the pool and they had to drain it. Racism has never left this country for us. I’m a baby boomer and I have seen it all, I gave my grandson a history lesson about racism and other things that comes along with being a black male. Now as a black female I have to be careful too, I didn’t mean to make this a political statement but I just wanted some of these young adults to know. By the way I do love your videos.

Awww. This was an awesome tribute. That background music took it over the top!

She was so beautiful and intelligent so sad she had to use backdoors and couldn't eat or swim in the places she stayed I will always remember her carmen .

My mother told me about her when I was a little boy that she committed sucide it just didn't sound right then not does it sounds right now

What a beautiful place .

Love this and the music was definitely a nice touch. Wow I always wanted to go there and walk in that area. Just to think about walking in places she probably walked is everything. Great video! ❤️❤️

Yes, her building was very nice and she was a beautiful actress! She was born to soon! Had she been born today, she would have been a much bigger star! Thanks for the glimpse, in her life! ⭐🙌⭐

Thank you!! For remembering one of the most beautiful, absolutely gorgeous, talented woman, singer, actress, dancer, who gave an " Academy Award" performance in "Carmen Jones" in my opinion. Can someone tell me if she was nominated for best or supporting actress for Carmen??

She Was A Beautiful Queen Gone 2 Soon🌹🌹🌹🌹

Beautiful property

Thank you for posting this. If you haven't already seen it, her full movies, "Island In The Sun" with Harry Belafonte-1957 and Porgy & Bess with Sidny Poitier-1959, have been posted on RU-vid. God Bless!

Many people think Dorothy was biracial but both her parents were black. It's One of the reasons Halle got the role. She did a great job though!

I love your voice and how calm you made this video. Made me feel like I was on a real tour guide.

Lewis I know Dorothy very well and I have all the movies that I could find. She was the greatest and so loved. I just founded your video and now I am a friend of yours.

A beautiful lady very talented gone too soon 🇨🇦😞🇨🇦🇨🇦

Wow!!!!! I’m definitely going to visit the next time I come to LA!

Lewis Bush, Thank You For Taking Me To Dorothy Dandridge's Place! You Did An Excellent Job Paying Your Respects To This Super Pioneer, Beautiful And Tortured Soul! I Read Everything I Can Put My Hands On About Dorothy Dandridge!

" Such a Beautiful sight, wish I lived there in that Beautiful white apartment". 😍🌷🌷🌷🌷 She was a Beauty..... Thank you for this video. ( One day ill visit there). 😉😊😀

dorthy d was first black actress to be nominated for academy award for carmen jones

Gone but Not Forgotten Thank You Ms Dandbridge R.I.P 🌻🌹

She was a real class act!

She was beautiful. May God be pleased with her soul. Thank you for this story Brother

Rip Beautiful The Government Killed Her Just Like They Did Billie Holiday Smh

Very beautiful apartment building!

She does way to soon. I used to live down the street from there. I’m so mad people did that to her statue. Thank you for posting, this video is well done🌸

She was stunning❤

Rip Dorothy Dandrige 🙏

Love this video. I just subscribed

You're a very pleasent young man!!! Thank you. I love these videos

Carmen Jones w/ Harry Belafonte. Beautiful Sister.

So So Beautiful..😇💕😇 The Actress..The Apartment...The Scenery...The Music, & Your Video😇💕💋💕💋😇

I love her! I have the movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge w/ Halle Berry & I watch it alot. I also have watched her movies. Thank you for doing this vlog...

A BEAUTIFUL PRETTY BLACK QUEEN THE PAST OF COLORFUL 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 OF 🕧 GONE BY HISYORY OF THE PASS. WAS REAL A STAR WAS BORN. 🌟🌼🌼

That was Beautiful of you to do that💐 This young generation has no idea the door she opened for them, to be able to step into as an artist with a craft!

She’s was so beautiful. I have her, Pam Grier and some more ladies on my bathroom wall. I made some photo canvases 🥰

I'm watching "Carmen Jones" now on TVOne.

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE WAS TOTAL PERFECTION.

She was such a beautiful woman, it's such a shame how badly things went through the years. I have the Donald Bogle biography, considered the definitive bio of her. I wish they'd made more movies with her.

Rip Dorothy . gone to soon. 💘 you.

My grandma knew her , she was done so wrong in life truly sad

Be careful as a black man walking around and filming. Stay safe. I appreciate seeing this beautiful building and i absolutely love Ms Dandridge. Thank you 😊

She Was Amazing Actor

Your voice is very soothing, thankyou. for the respct you showed to Mrs. Dandrige

Omg u got to actually be there😳 I absolutely love Dorothy dandridge… I use her beauty products that she usto use and perfume.❤️

Gorgeous! I am 59 and and just learning about her. I’ve heard of her of course but looked her up to see who she was. I guess she passed when I was tiny. What is strange to me is that anyone young enough to be able to reach to paint her face would have to know enough about her to make such a hateful decision. My kids are in their 20’s and up to 32 and I know they don’t know who she was. Makes you wonder if it were some kind of p.r. Stunt. However it happened it is disgusting. Nonetheless, i am searching out her story and her movies. Love the apt. Building! Hoping to find pics of her’s on the inside. I hope they have stayed true to the architecture. Thank you for sharing!

Yes, I loved her too. Read her book, saw a few of her movies. Very talented...hate she died the way she did.

How could anyone do that to such a beautiful talented woman’s statue. My granda and I loved watching her. He told me all about her campaigning and it was him who introduced me to Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and the absolutely wonderful Hattie McDaniel who played alongside James Cagney and wiped the floor ( my favourite male actor) with him in Johnny come lately. I cannot thank my granda enough for giving me an education on these wonderful women. He always said that you should never just educate yourself on white History but black and other races and religions. Knowledge is power. He was and still is in my the most educated man I know to date. He was a coal miner with a thirst for knowledge anyway he could get it. He once told me “ the most intelligent man is the man who admit he knows nothing”. It took me a while to understand what he was saying but I got it in the end. Thank for this, he would have loved it.

Dorothy was a real star. ! 🌟

Nice tribute.

Lovely place.

Lovely....

This video was so good. Thank you so much for sharing it. I want to go visit her grave at least when I get a chance to visit L.A.

Thank you for this video, and all of your videos. They are very informative. I have driven by the apartment complex a number of times. I never knew where her balcony was. I would also like to drive by the home she once owned in Beverly Hills. Now I would like to give a brief bio of her life. She was born on November 11, 1922. As you said, she was a singer-dancer and actress, who was in show business most of her life. During the decade of the '50s, she did a number of 1st. She was the First African American Actor to be Nominated for an Oscar in a Leading Actor or Actress category, To walk the red carpet and be an Oscar Presenter, the same year she was nominated, To grace the cover of Life Magazine, To appear at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, and sign a three-year contract with a major studio, 20 Century Fox. The contract was for star roles only "Name Above the title". Sadly she died on September 8, 1965.from an overdose of TOFRANIL. The week she died she'd just returned from Mexico, where she'd signed a movie contract and was scheduled to open at the Night Club "Basin Street East" in New York that Friday. In recent years, it's been pointed out that medication during that time, the '60s, didn't have the warning labels that they have today, about maximum dosage, and mixing medication with other medication or alcohol. Dinah Washington was another example of this, along with Judy Garland, Nick Adams, and many others.

Thanks for the info! I was watching something on utube about her last night! She was so talented, and beautiful! It's a crying shame how her two no good husbands basically destroyed her life. Rip Dorothy Dandridge!🙏

Love the video. Thank you 💕

She was a brilliant singer beautiful lady 🌹❤️🌹❤️ heartbreaking her story ❤️😍❤️❤️❤️

Gorgeous and phenomenal.... This was soothing ❤

She was so beautiful and talented ! Gone too soon!