1. – Suzanne Cloutier, The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, 1952. Blair, aka Mrs Gene Kelly, and blacklisted by Senator Joe McCarthy’s grip on Hollywood, was Desdemona for about a week, according to Orson Welles. She was Bianca in Tony Richardson’s 1955 version, the first on TV with a titular black actor: Gordon Heath.
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