Dorothy Dandridge

A year before they shot to stardom in Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonté made this inspiring film about a gifted educator and a lost boy. Dandridge plays Jane Richards, a fourth-grade teacher concerned about young C.T. (Philip Hepburn), a student whose indifference to school has even the principal (screen-debuting Belafonté) calling him a backwards child. Troubles as typical as a schoolyard brawl and as tragic as a classmate's death drive C.T. further into his shell. But Jane perseveres, hoping to help her student develop – the same as a caterpillar in a cocoon, C.T. lets down his guard and turns into a butterfly. One of the few mainstream films of its era to have a largely African-American cast, "Bright Road" boasts impressive talents behind the camera as well as on the screen, including director of photography Alfred Gilks, lensing his first feature-length film since winning an Academy Award® for "An American in Paris."

Carmen, a sultry woman, seduces a young soldier, Joe, in order to avoid imprisonment. However, when she leaves Joe for another man, he seeks revenge.

Harry Belafonte heads an all-star cast as a black leader who threatens British rule on a tropical island in this sweeping tale of scandal, politics and interracial romance.

John Payne, Sonja Henie and Milton Berle star in this lighthearted romantic comedy that features the Glenn Miller Orchestra as a struggling band named the Dartmouth Troubadours. The group is about to get it's big break at a posh Sun Valley ski resort, when the romance between singer Vivian Dawn (Lynn Bari) and piano player Ted Scott (Payne) is shaken by a publicity stunt set up by band manager "Nifty" Allen (Berle). "Nifty" has arranged for Ted to adopt a war refugee, and Ted becomes responsible fore a beautiful Norwegian (Henie) who decides she wants to marry him!