Diahann Carroll
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Diahann Carroll (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. Carroll was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards for her stage and screen performances, including a Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, an Academy Award nomination in 1974, and five Emmy Award nominations between 1963 and 2008.
Carroll rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including the classic movie musicals Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959). She received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her title role in the romantic comedy-drama film Claudine (1974). Carroll's other notable film credits include Paris Blues (1961), The Split (1968), Eve's Bayou (1997), and Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years (1999).
She starred in the title role in Julia (1968–1971), for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female. The series- in which Carroll played a nurse at a doctor's office at an aerospace company- was the first on American television to star a black woman whose character was not a servant or slave.<ref name="Today">Template:Cite news</ref> She played the role of Dominique Deveraux, a mixed-race diva, in the prime time soap opera Dynasty from 1984 to 1987. She also had roles in Naked City, A Different World, and Grey's Anatomy.
Carroll made her Broadway debut playing Ottilie Alias Violet in the musical House of Flowers (1954). She became the first African-American woman to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Barbara Woodruff in the musical No Strings (1962).
Early years
Carol Diann Johnson was born in the Bronx, New York City, on July 17, 1935,<ref name="Playbill"/> to John Johnson, a subway conductor, and Mabel (Template:Nee Faulk),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> a nurse.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp While Carroll was still an infant, the family moved to Harlem, where she grew up except for a brief period in which her parents had left her with an aunt in North Carolina.<ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She attended Music and Art High School,<ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="McCann"/> and was a classmate of Billy Dee Williams. In many interviews about her childhood, Carroll recalls her parents' support, and their enrolling her in dance, singing, and modeling classes. By the time Carroll was 15, she was modeling for Ebony.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/> "She also began entering television contests, including Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, under the name Diahann Carroll."<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp After graduating from high school, she attended New York University,<ref name="Playbill"/> where she majored in sociology,<ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp "but she left before graduating to pursue a show-business career, promising her family that if the career did not materialize after two years, she would return to college."<ref name=":0" />
Career
Carroll's big break came at the age of 18, when she appeared as a contestant on the DuMont Television Network program, Chance of a Lifetime, hosted by Dennis James.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp On the show, which aired January 8, 1954, she took the $1,000 top prize for a rendition of the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein song, "Why Was I Born?" She went on to win the following four weeks. Engagements at Manhattan's Café Society and Latin Quarter nightclubs soon followed.<ref name="Jet-15Apr1954">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Carroll's film debut was a supporting role in Carmen Jones (1954),<ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/> as a friend to the sultry lead character played by Dorothy Dandridge. That same year, she starred in the Broadway musical, House of Flowers.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="Playbill"/> A few years later, she played Clara in the film version of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), but her character's singing parts were dubbed by opera singer Loulie Jean Norman.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/> The following year, Carroll made a guest appearance in the series Peter Gunn, in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" (1960). In the next two years, she starred with Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, and Joanne Woodward in the film Paris Blues (1961)<ref name=":0" /> and won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (the first time for a Black woman) for portraying Barbara Woodruff in the Samuel A. Taylor and Richard Rodgers musical No Strings.<ref name="Today"/><ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill">Template:Cite news</ref> Twelve years later, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role alongside James Earl Jones in the film Claudine (1974),<ref name="Today"/><ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/> which part had been written specifically for actress Diana Sands (who had made guest appearances on Julia as Carroll's cousin Sara), but shortly before filming was to begin, Sands learned she was terminally ill with cancer. Sands attempted to carry on with the role, but as filming began, she became too ill to continue and recommended her friend Carroll take over the role.<ref name="ABC"/> Sands died in September 1973, before the film's release in April 1974.<ref name="ABC"/>
Carroll is known for her titular role in the television series Julia (1968–71),<ref name=":0"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Bogle">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp which made her the first African-American actress in a television series starring role that was not of a domestic worker.<ref name="Today"/><ref name="ABC"/> That role won her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female for its first year,<ref name="Playbill"/><ref name=globes>Template:Cite web</ref> and a nomination for an Primetime Emmy Award in 1969.<ref name="Playbill"/> Some of Carroll's earlier work also included appearances on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Judy Garland, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar, and Ed Sullivan, and on The Hollywood Palace variety show. In 1984, Carroll joined the nighttime soap opera Dynasty at the end of its fourth season as the mixed-race jet set diva Dominique Deveraux,<ref name=":0"/> Blake Carrington's half-sister.<ref name="ABC"/> Her high-profile role on Dynasty also reunited her with her schoolmate Billy Dee Williams, who briefly played her onscreen husband Brady Lloyd. Carroll remained on the show and made several appearances on its short-lived spin-off, The Colbys until she departed at the end of the seventh season in 1987. In 1989, she began the recurring role of Marion Gilbert, Whitley Gilbert's mother, in A Different World, for which she received her third Emmy nomination that same year.<ref name="ABC"/>
In 1991, Carroll portrayed Eleanor Potter, the doting, concerned, and protective wife of Jimmy Potter (portrayed by Chuck Patterson), in the musical drama film The Five Heartbeats (1991),<ref name="Playbill"/> also featuring actor and musician Robert Townsend and Michael Wright. She reunited with Billy Dee Williams again in 1995, portraying his character's wife Mrs. Greyson in Lonesome Dove: The Series. The following year, Carroll starred as the self-loving, egotistical, corrupt, manipulative and deceptive silent movie star Norma Desmond in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the film Sunset Boulevard. In 2001, Carroll made her animation debut in The Legend of Tarzan,<ref name="K104.7">Template:Cite news</ref> in which she voiced Queen La,<ref name="Perlmutter">Template:Cite book</ref> ruler of the ancient city of Opar.<ref name="Mayer">Template:Cite book</ref>
In 2006, Carroll appeared in several episodes of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke, the demanding mother of Dr. Preston Burke. From 2008 to 2014, she appeared on USA Network's series White Collar in the recurring role of June, the savvy widow who rents out her guest room to Neal Caffrey.<ref name=miltovich>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2010, Carroll was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docudrama titled 1 a Minute, and appeared as Nana in two Lifetime movie adaptations of Patricia Cornwell novels: At Risk and The Front.<ref name=sify>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2013, Carroll was present on stage at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards to briefly speak about being the first African-American nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She was quoted as saying about Kerry Washington, nominated for Scandal, "she better get this award."<ref name="Gray">Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal life
Carroll was married four times. Her father boycotted the ceremony for her first wedding<ref name=people/> in 1956, to record producer Monte Kay,<ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/> which was presided over by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. The marriage ended in 1962.<ref name=people>Template:Cite news</ref> Carroll gave birth to her daughter, Suzanne Kay (born September 9, 1960), who became a journalist and screenwriter.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Griffiths"/>
In 1959, Carroll began a nine-year affair with the married actor Sidney Poitier.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="McCann"/> In her autobiography, Carroll said Poitier persuaded her to divorce her husband and said he would leave his wife to be with her. While she proceeded with her divorce, Poitier did not keep his part of the bargain.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Eventually he divorced his wife. According to Poitier, their relationship ended because he wanted to live with Carroll for six months without her daughter present so he would not be "jumping from one marriage straight into another." She refused.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Carroll dated and was engaged to British television host and producer David Frost from 1970 until 1973.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="McCann"/> In February 1973, Carroll surprised the press by marrying Las Vegas boutique owner Fred Glusman.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC" /> After four months of marriage, Glusman filed for divorce in June 1973. Carroll filed a response, but did not contest the divorce, which was finalized two months later.<ref name="McCann"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Glusman was reportedly physically abusive.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On May 25, 1975, Carroll, then aged 39, married Robert DeLeon (1950–1977),<ref name="Jet mag">Template:Cite magazine</ref> the 24-year-old managing editor of Jet magazine in New York City.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC" /> They met when DeLeon assigned himself to a cover story on Carroll about her 1975 Oscar nomination for Claudine.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> DeLeon had a daughter, Monica, from a previous marriage.<ref name="Jet mag"/> Carroll moved to Chicago where Jet was headquartered, but DeLeon soon quit his job so the couple relocated to Oakland.<ref name=":1" /> Carroll was widowed when DeLeon was killed in a car crash in Beverly Hills on March 31, 1977.<ref name="McCann"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Jet mag"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Carroll's fourth and final marriage was to singer Vic Damone in 1987.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC" /> The union, which Carroll admitted was turbulent, had a legal separation in 1991, reconciliation, and divorce in 1996.<ref name="McCann"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Charitable work
Carroll was a founding member of the Celebrity Action Council, a volunteer group of celebrity women who served the women's outreach of the Los Angeles Mission, working with women in rehabilitation from problems with alcohol, drugs, or prostitution. She helped to form the group along with other female television personalities including Mary Frann, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, and Joan Van Ark.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Illness, death, and memorial
Carroll was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She said the diagnosis "stunned" her, because there was no family history of breast cancer, and she had always led a healthy lifestyle. She underwent nine weeks of radiation therapy and had been clear for years after the diagnosis. She frequently spoke of the need for early detection and prevention of the disease.<ref name="ABC" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She died from natural causes at her home in West Hollywood, California, on October 4, 2019, at the age of 84.<ref name="ABC">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":0" /> Carroll also suffered from another form of cancer and dementia at the time of her death, which was unrelated, though actor Marc Copage, who played her character's son on Julia, said that she did not appear to show serious signs of cognitive decline as of late 2017.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1954 | Carmen Jones | Myrt | <ref name="Playbill"/><ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/> |
| 1959 | Porgy and Bess | Clara | <ref name="Playbill"/><ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/> |
| 1961 | Goodbye Again | Night Club Singer | <ref name="ABC"/> |
| Paris Blues | Connie Lampson | <ref name="ABC"/> | |
| 1967 | Hurry Sundown | Vivian Turlow | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1968 | The Split | Ellen "Ellie" Kennedy | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC"/> |
| 1974 | Claudine | Claudine | <ref name="Today"/><ref name=":0"/><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/> |
| 1982 | Sister, Sister | Carolyne Lovejoy | |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues | Jazz Club Singer | Uncredited |
| 1991 | The Five Heartbeats | Eleanor Potter | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="K104.7"/> |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment | Herself | <ref name="Kim">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou | Elzora | <ref name="K104.7"/> |
| 2013 | Tyler Perry Presents Peeples | Nana Peeples | <ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> |
| 2016 | The Masked Saint | Ms. Edna | (final film role)<ref name="K104.7"/> |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Chance of a Lifetime | Herself | Four consecutive weeks as a contestant | <ref name=":0"/><ref name="McCann"/> |
| The Red Skelton Hour | Herself | 1 episode | <ref name="McCann"/> | |
| 1955 | General Electric Theater | Anna | Episode: "Winner by Decision" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1957–61 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show | Herself | 28 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| 1957–68 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Herself | 9 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1959–62 | The Garry Moore Show | Herself | 8 episodes | <ref name="Inman">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp |
| 1960 | Peter Gunn | Dina Wright | Episode: "Sing a Song of Murder" | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| The Man in the Moon | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="K104.7"/> | ||
| 1962 | What's My Line? | Mystery Guest | Episode: Diahann Carroll | <ref name="McCann"/><ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> |
| Naked City | Ruby Jay | Episode: "A Horse Has a Big Head!" | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp | |
| 1963 | The Eleventh Hour | Stella Young | Episode: "And God Created Vanity" | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp<ref name="K104.7"/> |
| 1963–75 | The Merv Griffin Show | Herself | 2 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1964 | The Judy Garland Show | Herself | Episode 21 | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| 1964–69 | The Hollywood Palace | Herself | 10 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1965 | The Dean Martin Show | Herself | 1 episode (First Dean Martin Show) | |
| 1967–71 | The Carol Burnett Show | Herself | 2 episodes | <ref name="Inman"/>Template:Rp |
| 1968–71 | Julia | Julia Baker | 86 episodes | <ref name=":0"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Today"/><ref name="ABC"/> |
| 1972–86 | The Dick Cavett Show | Herself | 3 episodes | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| 1972 | The New Bill Cosby Show | Herself | 1 episode | <ref name="Cosby">Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 1975 | Death Scream | Betty May | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1976 | The Diahann Carroll Show | Herself | 4 episodes | <ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| 1977 | The Love Boat | Roxy Blue | Episode: "Isaac the Groupie" | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="K104.7"/> |
| 1977–78 | Hollywood Squares | Herself | 11 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1978 | Star Wars Holiday Special | Mermeia Holographic | TV special | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations | Zeona Haley | Episode: Part VI (1939-1950) | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Vivian | TV movie | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp | |
| 1982 | Sister, Sister | Carolyne Lovejoy | TV movie | <ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| 1984–87 | Dynasty | Dominique Deveraux | 74 episodes | <ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Griffiths"/> |
| 1985–86 | The Colbys | Dominique Deveraux | 7 episodes | <ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Griffiths"/> |
| 1989 | From the Dead of Night | Maggie | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| 1989–93 | A Different World | Marion Gilbert | 9 episodes | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="Playbill"/> |
| 1990 | Murder in Black and White | Margo Stover | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| 1991 | Sunday in Paris | Vernetta Chase | TV short | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1993 | The Sinbad Show | Mrs. Winters | Episode: "My Daughter's Keeper" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1994 | Burke's Law | Grace Gibson | Episode: "Who Killed the Beauty Queen?" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| Evening Shade | Ginger | Episode: "The Perfect Woman" | <ref name="McCann"/> | |
| 1994–95 | Lonesome Dove: The Series | Ida Grayson | 7 episodes | <ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1994 | A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle |
Lydia Bishop | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1995 | Touched by an Angel | Grace Willis | Episode: "The Driver" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1998 | The Sweetest Gift | Mrs. Wilson | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1999 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years |
Sadie Delany | TV movie | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp |
| Jackie's Back | Herself | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/> | |
| Twice in a Lifetime | Jael | 2 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/> | |
| 2000 | The Courage to Love | Pouponne | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Betty Hemings | Miniseries | <ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Bogle"/>Template:Rp | |
| Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Crow | Episode: "Aesop's Fables: A Whodunit Musical" | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story | Maria Cole | TV movie | <ref name="McCann"/> | |
| 2001 | The Legend of Tarzan | Queen La | Voice, 3 episodes | <ref name="K104.7"/><ref name="Perlmutter"/> |
| 2002 | The Court | Justice DeSett | 6 episodes | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| Half & Half | Grandma Ruth Thorne | Episode: "The Big Thanks for Forgiving Episode" | <ref name="McCann"/> | |
| 2003 | Strong Medicine | Eve Morton | Episode: "Love and Let Die" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 2003–04 | Soul Food | Aunt Ruthie | 2 episodes | <ref name="K104.7"/><ref name="McCann"/> |
| 2004 | Whoopi | Viveca Rae | Episode: "Mother's Little Helper" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 2006–07 | Grey's Anatomy | Jane Burke | 5 episodes | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Griffiths"/> |
| 2008 | Back to You | Sandra Jenkins | Episode: "Hug & Tell" | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| Over the River...Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom |
Narrator | Documentary | <ref name="McCann">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Jackson">Template:Cite book</ref> | |
| 2009–14 | White Collar | June Ellington | 25 episodes | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="Griffiths"/> |
| 2010 | At Risk | Nana Mary | TV movie | <ref name="Evans">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| The Front | Nana Evelyn | TV movie | <ref name="Evans"/> | |
| Diahann Carroll: The Lady. The Music. The Legend |
Herself | Filmed live in concert in Palm Springs, California | <ref name="FrancisPS">Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 2010–11 | Diary of a Single Mom | Jane Marco | 7 episodes | <ref name="Playbill"/> |
Theater
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | House of Flowers | Ottillie (alias Violet) | Alvin Theatre, Broadway | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1962 | No Strings | Barbara Woodroff | 54th Street Theatre, Broadway | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1977 | Same Time, Next Year | Doris | Huntington Hartford Theatre | <ref name="ABC"/> |
| 1979 | Black Broadway | Performer | Benefit concert | |
| 1983 | Agnes of God | Dr. Martha Livingstone | Music Box Theatre, Broadway | <ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Kepler">Template:Cite news</ref> |
| 1990 | Love Letters | Melissa Gardner | Los Angeles Production | <ref name="Pao">Template:Cite book</ref> |
| 1995 | Sunset Boulevard | Norma Desmond | Ford Centre, Toronto | <ref name=":0" /><ref name="ABC"/><ref name="Playbill"/><ref name="McCann"/> |
| 1999 | The Vagina Monologues | Performer | Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 2004 | Bubbling Brown Sugar | Performer | Theater of the Stars, Atlanta | <ref name="McCann"/> |
| On Golden Pond | Ethel | Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. | <ref name="Kepler"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 2007 | Both Sides Now | Performer | Feinstein's at the Regency, New York | <ref name="McCann"/> |
Discography
- Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen Songs (1957)<ref name="Rayno">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Best Beat Forward (1958)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- The Persian Room Presents Diahann Carroll (1959)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Porgy and Bess (1959) (with the André Previn Trio)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- The Magic of Diahann Carroll (with the André Previn Trio) (1960)<ref name="McCann"/><ref name="Rayno"/>
- Fun Life (1961)<ref name="McCann"/>
- The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Comedy (1962)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Showstopper! (1962)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- The Fabulous Diahann Carroll (1962)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- You're Adorable: Love Songs for Children (1967)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Nobody Sees Me Cry (1967)<ref name="Rayno"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Diahann Carroll (1974)<ref name="Coffin">Template:Cite news</ref>
- A Tribute to Ethel Waters (1978)<ref name="Rayno"/>
- The Time of My Life (1997)<ref name="Rayno"/>
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
Further reading
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- Ostrom, Hans A. and J. David Macey Jr. Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio (2023).Template:ISBN.
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