Grace Jones Face Before", "Private Life", and "Slave to the Rhythm". In 1982, she released the music video collection "A One Man Show", directed by Goude. Jones appeared in some low-budget films in the US during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1984, she made her first mainstream appearance as Zula in the fantasy-action film "Conan the Destroyer" alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas, and subsequently appeared in the 1985 James Bond movie "A View to a Kill" as May Day. In 1986, she played a vampire in "Vamp", and acted in and contributed a song to the 1992 Eddie Murphy film
Carmen Jones (film) songs."-- James Baldwin, in his 1955 published essays "Notes of a Native Son", devotes his critical attention to the movie with the essay "Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough". The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film from any Source but lost to "Richard III". Dorothy Dandridge was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the first African American to be honored in the category, but lost to Grace Kelly in "The Country Girl", and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign