Nicholas Harolyn

American noted family, the daughter of actress Dorothy Dandridge and Harold Nicholas, one of the finest dancers of the 20th century. Her mom was in labor for 15 hours, holding back and waiting for her dad to get back with the car keys. When Harolyn was born, she was cyanotic and had brain damage. By the age of four, she could not speak and required full-time care. Dandridge, 16 when the child was born, never forgave herself for waiting to go the hospital. In 1963, she put the girl into a full-time care facility. Harolyns dad died of heart failure 7/03/2000 in New York, NY at the age of 79. Read less