Actress and singer Diahann Carroll describes the role of Claudine in this ninth of ten excerpts from the NVLP Oral History Archive. To learn more about Diahann Carroll, visit www.visionarypr...
She put her foot in that role up to the ankles!!! One of my favorite movies. The scene where her daughter tells her she's pregnant, Lord I thought she was going to kill her!!! This Queen will me missed a treasure!!!
Diahann Carroll: Born July 17, 1935 - Died October 4, 2019 at the age of 84 (Cancer). She was an American actress, singer and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of a mixed-race diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty. Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Television Series in 1968. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for the 1974 film Claudine.
@carolyn Townsend : I don't know. It was a good year for Best Actress. The Oscar was given to Ellen Burstyn for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Others nominated besides Diahann Carroll, were Faye Dunaway for "Chinatown" and Gena Rowlands for "A Woman under the Influence"
Yes she was still upset about her friend Diana Sands was a wonderful actress in her own right. Please check out a rasin in the sun and the her last movie the landlord with Beau Bridges one of my favorite movies and sadly Ms Sands died from cancer and I am still a fan of these Queens ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I LOVED THE MOVE CLAUDINE "FRAUD" 😆😆😆,THE SOUNDTRACK WITH GLADY AND THE PIPS JUST WRNT TOGETHER. AWESOME, JUST WATCHED CLAUDINE THIS PAST WEEKEND. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🌹🌹🌹
I REALLY IDOLIZED HER...One of my role models as a child...Actually the first AA female I saw on TV ...Thank you for showing the world l how classy and special AA women really are. What you gave to the world....can never be minimized.
Watched it in The Netherlands, same effect there. Just found out a grade school girlfriend still has her Julia Barbie( I had noooo idea there was one) but had forgotten the name of the series.
@@ssballs I had a Julia Barbie also! It was the first time that a doll was made based on a black T.V. character. I got it for Christmas 1970? I didn't keep that doll. It has to really be a collector's item now.
That movie is awesome. I was young kid at that time and that movie really showed black life in those days and the struggles of the most black mothers back then dealing with welfare bad kids and being a woman in love with a man. She did a great job.
@lorimneal I couldn't agree more. Diana was a wonderful actress who never really got her due...she and Diahann were great friends who helped each other on occassion...while I can only imagine what Diana would have done with the part...Diahann IS Claudine...she slammed in that role. And made all the doubters eat their words.
🌹 My beloved Mother took myself & siblings to see Claudine at Mather A.F.B. Sacramento Ca. Claudine my very favorite movie fast forward 2019 still have goose bumps watching, Ms. Carol priceless, thankfully proud I am to be a black woman. Was blessed to have one of the best Mother's in this world, 40 years later thank you for beautiful memories. God bless Ms. Carol's family I'm going to miss her. Thank you❣❣
Damn another great legend leaves us. She was an actress who never got her fair due of respect from Hollywood I mean yeah she got a few great roles but as far as longevity like white actresses she never got her fair share of great roles. I remember hearing her say in an interview that many times roles not given to her because - when asked to do something she as a human not as a character - but her as a human when she refused to do things that she felt compromised her dignity and self respect the industry turned on her making it seem as though she was the bad guy.
Diahann would have be so great on Desperate Housewives. I wish someone would have been smart enough to cast her in that. I want to see her more in roles. She is fantastic!
Loved her on a different world, as Marion Gilbert the mother of Whitley played by ms Jasmine guy!!!! She was very funny!!!!, way to go , rest in eternal peace. Ms. Diahann Carroll, sleep well. You are truly missed.
For those who do't know who Diana Sands is, look up the original Movie for A Raisin in the Sun. She was Beneatha (in the movie AND the original Broadway play). She was also in the movie Willie Dynamite with Roscoe (Gordon on Sesame Street) Orman.
Hardly ANY coverage on Miss Carroll. White women pass every station every show WOW REST IN PEACE MISS DIAHANN ONE OF THE CLASSIEST MOST BEAUTIFUL ACTRESSES TO GRACE THE SCREEN!!!! ⚘⚘💕
My mother loves this movie ,n know word by word she often feels this should done as a remake but I hope they don't mess it up like new sparkle! Mamaremix
I just watched Claudine last week for the first time. Claudine is a strong, tough single mother with 6 kids. I totally resented the SW's intrusion and loved when Rupert (James Earl Jones) put her in her place.
Diahann Carroll's Oscar 🏆nomination for Best Actress for Claudine was historic, not only for her superb performance, but due to the fact, that it was also an indie film which are often critically acclaimed but aren't always commercially successful. Claudine had both components 💰🎦 according to these box office 🎬 receipts: "Not only did critics enjoy the film, it was also a commercial success judging by the standards of 1974. The movie cost $3 million to make and ended up grossing $6 million the year of its release!!!"
I love listening to her interviews and how she deliver her stories. Beautiful talented actress she was. RIP in the loving arms of Jesus Ms Dianne Carroll. We Love you and thank you for your gift of talented screen performance we will cherish until we all a join together one day. ❤💗❤🙏🙏🙏
Personally, always thought that, when she was on "Dynasty" they've should've done (instead of the character Jeff Colby) the spin off series with her and Billy Dee Williams. They had the audience (particularly among blacks) the ratings actually went up when Diahann and Billy Dee join the cast back in 1984. Some tried to argue back in the day that, America was not ready for a black power family. But you know what? They said the same thing about "The Cosby Show" that same year.
She lost to Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which is another legendary performance...but Diahann deserved the gold that year without a doubt
Lovely interview. "Claudine" was written specifically for Diana Sands by the husband/wife team Lester & Tina Pine. it was planned to be the role that would showcase her talent in an unmistakeable way -- so many in the business felt she was a truly great and gifted actress who was not getting the attention, the roles, the money, or the fame that she deserved. The director, John Berry was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and had been living in France. Claudine was to be his US comeback. Also they wanted a diverse working crew. It was not just a film being made for profit, but a film these people believed in -- they were putting their politics into action at every turn. But, Diana got sick before any film rolled. Diahann did an excellent job, but one thing she doesn't say here is that although the director was John Berry, she worked privately -- really secretly, with a New York acting coach, Alice Spivak. It was her hard work with Alice that truly got her to the Oscars. Bravo all.
I love Claudine. I adore Ms. Carroll but why would anyone think this was historic when just two years earlier both Diana Ross [Lady Sings the Blues] and Cicely Tyson [Sounder] were both nominated for Best Actress against one another? And Sounder was a very low-budget, low profile film.
Also, Diahann had reputation for being so clean cut and in the movie she was "nude" or showing excessive skin. Like the scene when she's laying in the bed with the covers not covering the botton of her and you can almost see her but the camera is angled in a way to not show it. Or the bathtub scene when you can see her breasts for a second.
