40 Facts About The Tragic Life of Dorothy Dandridge

40 Facts About The Tragic Life of Dorothy Dandridge

Trista - June 10, 2019

40 Facts About The Tragic Life of Dorothy Dandridge
A still of Dandridge in Malaga. Copper Colored Gal.

21. False Memories of Other Interracial Kisses Lingered

In a case of shared false memory, sometimes called a Mandela Effect, many moviegoers of the 1950s thought that Dandridge actually shared her first interracial kiss in 1959 in the film Malaga. While white actor Trevor Howard did have an enormous amount of onscreen romantic chemistry with Dandridge, the film did not, at any point, show a kiss between its two stars.

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