Black Beauties To Know And Love: Actress Marpessa Dawn

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She did a little TV work in England, but when she moved to France in 1953, she got her big break. She met director Marcel Camus, who picked her to play the lead role of Eurydice in his film, Black Orpheus. Dawn was only 24.

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