Diahann carroll

Actress Diahann Carroll holding court in her living room discussing the plight of Blacks in the television industry. Quote, "For some reason, whenever black skin is on television, everyone relates to it as if it's a documentary."' Source:Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Find Us On Twitter…

Diahann Carroll photographed by Gene Howard, 1960.” • Jun 12, 2020 at 8:23pm UT

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Most Memorable Dresses: Diahann Carroll’s show-stopping pink gown with a sparkling translucent overlay at the 41st Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California 1969.

This black and white glamour portrait features DIahann Carroll walking along the street, turning the heads of lines up policemen. Diahann Carroll is an American television and stage actress, singer and model known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959) as well as on Broadway. Julia (1968) was one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role…

Proof that growing old is nothing to be afraid of.