Aleta Mitchell, who portrayed Dussie Mae in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Broadway and appeared in films for Milos Forman , Wes Craven, Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood, has died. She was 74. Mitchell died April 14 in hospice care in Branford, Connecticut, her family announced . In the Craven-directed Haitian voodoo horror movie The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Mitchell’s Celestine Durand shows up in a dream sequence as a corpse in a white bridal gown; when she opens her mouth, a huge snake emerges to bite Bill Pullman’s character in the face. Later, the actress appeared in Forman’s Valmont (1989), in Lee’s Malcolm X (1992) and in Eastwood’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). Born in Chicago on Feb. 12, 1952, Mitchell grew up in Hyde Park on the South Side. She appeared in touring stage productions throughout the Midwest while attending high school, then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Acting, respectively, from the University of Iowa in 1981 and the Yale School of Drama.…