Hoagy Carmichael is remembered today as one of America's great composers of popular songs. Several of his tunes, like "Star Dust" ,"Georgia on My Mind", "Up The Lazy River", "Lazybones", "Skylark" and "Heart and Soul" have become standards which are still widely performed. Dorothy Dandridge toured America with sister and mother, performing in Baptist churches before Los Angeles put her on the screen. Among her film roles were a southern schoolteacher in Bright Road (1953) and the title roles in Carmen Jones (1954) and Otto Preminger's production of Porgy and Bess (1959).
