Complex sentence: Despite receiving critical acclaim, she found herself unable to find much work in the Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s, where black actresses were expected to have dark skin, and were usually typecast as maids.
Split into simpler sentences: Despite receiving critical acclaim, she was unable to find much work in the Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s. One the one hand, black actresses were expected to have dark skin, and were usually typecast as maids.