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Diahann Carroll remembers her dealings with Sammy Davis Jr. and Marlon Brando as a young actress in 1950s Hollywood.
Dynasty 1980s TV Series
Joan Collins aka Alexis Colby
John Forsythe aka Blake Carrington
Diahann Carroll aka Dominique Deveraux
Billy Dee Williams aka Brady Lloyd
John James aka Jeff Colby
Linda Evans aka Krystle Carrington
Check out this great essay on Debbi Morgan’s career-best portrayal of frequently widowed 1960s Louisiana psychic Mozelle Batiste Delacroix in the richly evocative Southern Gothic melodrama Eve’s Bayou (1997, Kasi Lemmons; with co-stars Jurnee Smollett, Diahann Carroll and Samuel L. Jackson):
““We’re two of a kind, my brother and I,” Mozelle intones repeatedly, and it takes a formidable talent to play the sister of Samuel L. Jackson (at his most magnetic here, with no 12-letter words in sight). But Morgan actually upstages him. She has a way of gliding into a room as though on a dolly, and her reaction shots are so acute that the film uses them as punctuation. Her unsettlingly wide eyes flicker between emotions outsize and minute, and her sultry, worldly-wise voice sounds just as one imagines Ava Gardner’s did before the studio sanded down the Southern edges. She feels born of the bayous, as endemic to the region as Spanish moss… It’s worth considering Morgan’s turn not only as a great performance but as the kind of supporting work that’s hardly ever recognized—neither ingénue nor overdue, and not, like this year’s front-runners, a masquerading lead. It fuels the eternal hope that admirers of great performances, like Louis in Mozelle’s prophecy, “open their eyes and see that what they’ve been looking for is standing right in front of them.”” — Steven Mears, “On Debbi Morgan in Eve’s Bayou”,Film Comment (February 2016)
And see my previous post on this undervalued classic of black cinema here!
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DIAHANN CARROLL
Tony and Golden Globes award winner and @theacademy award nominated actress, singer, model, & activist Diahann Carroll starred as fortune teller/witch Elzora in the excellent EVE’S BAYOU (1997) directed by Kasi Lemmons. #BlackHorrorMonth#BlackHistoryMonth#Day10
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Diahann Carroll photographed by Gene Howard, circa 1960
Rest in paradise to Oscar nominated trailblazer and icon Diahann Carroll. She was the first Black woman to star in a non-servant role on television in Julia She broke many barriers and stereotypes set for Black women. She was the first Black person to win a Tony Award for a leading role. She was a true pioneer and made many significant contributions to Black American cinema. (17 July 1935 - 04 October 2019)
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“I wanted America to know that beauty isn’t just white. It’s all colors. I wanted to change the way people of color were seen across the United States.”
Read about Ophelia DeVore, the founder of the first black model agency, on her new project with Emory University!
She has launched the careers of Diahann Caroll, a former Grace del Marco model, as well as others through her Ophelia DeVore School of Charm.
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