Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress and dancer. She is known for her film roles as Princess Imani Izzi in the 1988 comedy Coming to America, as well as for her roles in What's Love Got to ...

But she almost made an even splashier acting turn as Eddie Murphy’s love interest — who also just so happened to be named Lisa — in the 1988 classic “Coming to America.” “That was ...

Wendy Hitchmough’s Vanessa Bell: The Life & Art of a Bloomsbury Radical, is likely, then, to find a receptive audience. But any book seeking a place on that crowded shelf must justify its inclusion.