Vanity Fairさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Vanity FairInstagram)「Dorothy Dandridge accomplished many things in her short life: she was the first Black woman nominated for the best-actress Oscar and the first Black woman on the cover of Life magazine. Her perceptive, often humorous autobiography, Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy, lays out her search for love in candid, often luscious prose. But she was also plagued by ghosts—primarily that of her only child, Harolyn Suzanne “Lynn” Nicholas, who Dandridge eventually gave to a caretaker due to Lynn's severe intellectually disabilities. “On the outside, I said to myself, ‘I’ve had it, I’ll give her up,'" Dandridge wrote. "Inside I never gave her up. It was myself that I began giving up.” Everything and Nothing, co-written by Earl Conrad and published five years after her death, documents how Dandridge threw herself into destructive romances and her career as a singer and actor after she gave up Lynn. In the process, she encountered another ghost: that of Jim Crow. “While experiencing what seemed to be a full acceptance, I encountered not-yetness,” she writes. “Whites weren’t quite ready for full acceptance even of me, purportedly beautiful, passable, acceptable, talented, called by the critics every superlative in the lexicon employed for a talented and beautiful woman.” Read more at the link in bio.」10月18日 2時00分