screenshots / Introducing Dorothy Dandridge / 1999 HBO Pictures

This biographical television film, based on the 1991 biography Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills, stars Halle Berry as the actress/singer.

Actor Tyrone Wade was cast in the role of Lex Barker for a reenactment of filming a studio scene with Dorthy Danridge from 1951's Tarzan's Peril.

The production filmed in Hollywood and Los Angeles, California.

The film had it's HBO premiere on August 21, 1999.