Is Diahann Carroll okay?

Booze from what I hear...

I thought I read on here a few years ago that she has dementia

I don't know how long ago it was filmed, but she is on the CNN Kennedy series. Looks great.

She's going to be the Chiller convention in NJ later this month. Doubt she would be doing one of these if she had dementia.

Oops, she was at the Chiller convention last year.

Since then?

I sincerely hope the convention serve Petrossian beluga, which she prefers. And the champagne had better not be burned.

Well she's soon 83 ... heard she is frail, has memory problems.

Liza should follow her example.

Sad last days.

Well, I'm doing just fine!

R11, you VIPAH!

She's 82 years old.

She did an interview earlier this year with the Root.

She's just slowing down and that's perfectly normal.

I follow Dame Joan Collins' Twitter (Mary!) and she had a pic of her and Diahann Carroll at some showbiz event few weeks ago.

[quote] I thought I read on here a few years ago that she has dementia

This black didn’t crack!

Diahann will be appearing in September with many of your favorites.

She's got her fingers crossed for a "Different World" reboot.

Beware the burnt champagne!

I used to watch her in a TV series called Julia when I was a kid growing up.

Julia was on for 3 seasons, 86 episodes. Diahann Carroll played a nurse.

Some designer queen at Target made a bedspread based on Julia's coat at the beginning of the 1968 Christmas episode.

My Mom gave it to me, so then I showed her the episode: it's a perfect match!

A more recent photo of her.

Lots of plastic surgery here.

I like her pearls, she has some good strands.

Diahann's entire life has been a series of SCREWUPS

R25 Why? I've heard on this website that she could be very difficult. Was she?

I love Diahann. I hope she’s having a great time.

[quote] Well she's soon 83 ... heard she is frail, has memory problems.

I think Miss Carroll has not been forthright about her birth year. Officially it is 1935 but acquaintances swear she is 3 years older. That would make her 86 this year.

[quote] I think Miss Carroll has not been forthright about her birth year.

So diplomatic.

Her career never recovered from the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Who in the world does she play on CNN's Kennedy series??

This coat R21?

R31, it's a documentary, not a docu-drama. She "plays" someone who was present & performed at the MSG May 19, 1962 early 45th birthday party for JFK at which he was serenaded by Marilyn Monroe.

Carroll performed at events for JFK on more than one occasion. She was the leading black female entertainer of her generation.

[quote] She was the leading black female entertainer of her generation.

That's a little overboard.

Wasn't she discovered as a teenager on one of those early 1950s TV talent shows? So her age couldn't be too debatable.

Her voice back then was quite remarkable and unique. Just listen to her on the OBC of House of Flowers singing A Sleepin' Bee or I Never Has Seen Snow. It's sad to me that most people only know her from Julia and Dynasty.

She was really born in 1935. NY birth records from 1910-1965 are available on ancestry.com and it has July 17, 1935 as her birthdate and she is also listed as being 5 years old on the 1940 census records.

[quote]I've heard on this website that she could be very difficult. Was she?

I know first hand that yes, she was very difficult.

I was the first black bitch on prime time TV, you know.

Wasn't the first black bitch on prime time Louise Beavers who played Beulah?

Robert Wagner is going to be at that convention in Sept. I've got a few Benjamins for the DLer who attends and asks RJ to present hole

r40 Fuck you, honey -- I played her first!

Is she bipolar??

Maybe it’s herpes.

In r34’s picture is that Marilyn Monroe in the same photo as... Ethel Kennedy?

I think it is, r45. With Peter Lawford looking bored right behind her.

What an amazing photo of a particular moment in history. I'd love to see a version of it with everyone identified. Who is the lady in the pale dress sitting on the landing?

Yesterday was Diahann Carroll's 83rd birthday, and none of you even noticed.

Happy belated birthday Diahann!

Met her at Chiller and she is gorgeous. She does not have dementia, she was a complete pleasure to meet. I have "Claudine" signed by her and my friend got her Julia Barbie signed. Couldn't have been more pleasant and doing these shows can be exhausting especially for someone in their 80's.

Thanks r48. I am so pleased to hear she is doing well. She is fabulous!

Her second autobio "The Legs Are The Last To Go" is a good fun read. The first one -from the 80ies, i think- is a selfindulgent mess. Found both in my second-hand bookstore for 2€ and since moviestar-bios are my guilty pleasure, it was a nice find. Between those two books, she came off to me as somebody who took quite a personal journey, asked herself the hard honest questions and takes responsibility for fucking up. I came to respect her for that. Lot´s of diva stuff too,of course, like her discovering clothe that don´t need to be drycleaned,because she needed a wardrobe for playing on the floor with the grandkids.

Fav. storie from the early 70ies.

Miss Carroll shopping in Beverly Hills. She sees a canary yellow rolls royce coming down the street. Behind the wheel Diana Ross. Miss Carrolls reaction? : " There goes the neigbourhood!" (to be fair,she tells this story to illustrate how out of touch she was with the changing time)

Caftan

Turban

I don´t mind sitting down and shutting up....

If you have Miss Carroll

you will be missed!

[quote] Julia was on for 3 seasons, 86 episodes. Diahann Carroll played a nurse.

Holy fuck. I've been on my show for four seasons and we've only done 39 episodes! What did they pay her, like 10 million a season?! Or whatever money was worth in the olden days, but still.

I hope she's okay, maybe she drank some burnt champagne...her stomach's very sensitive...

She married tired Jew Freddie Glussman, owner of Pieros in LV and part of the mob. Dumb as shit she was.

I don´t care what you say to my face; you viphhaa!

Lena Horne did not like her. She said that Diahann stole her techniques and her movie roles and simply copied her. No lost love there.

Not a fan of hers and have read many stories about what a cunt she was to work with. But you gotta pay her some respect. She really was the first black female lead in a TV series in the 60's! The show was awful. But she did it and pulled it off for three seasons, despite a lot of protesting back then.

[quote] She really was the first black female lead in a TV series in the 60's!

No, dear.

She was fabulous on Dynasty and The Colbys. If I'm not remembering wrong, they even let her sing a few times. Her character was supposed to be Blake's (half) sister, right?

I remember those interviews after her casting was announced. "I am looking forward to being the first black BITCH on television," or whatever. Along with casting Stephanie Beacham as Sable, I guess that in a way the producers were signaling to Joan Collins that there were other divas in the ring, when it came to contract negotiations.

Bartender Isaac learned that Roxie was thirsty. 🍾

She's.......

Final moments as Norma , Vancouver 1997

Assembeled "somewhat reluctantly" with Natalie Wood, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Fonde and Rosalind Russell

What happened to her eyes? There is a grey ring around them. Is that to do with age, disease, contacts, or something else?

[quote] Lena Horne did not like her. She said that Diahann stole her techniques and her movie roles and simply copied her. No lost love there.

Lena felt that way about every younger black female -- mostly because it was true, many female performers stole a little bit of Lena's persona, phrasing and stagecraft. However, Diahann was her own gloriously unique creation. A superb vocalist and performer AND Diahann was a gifted actress. She came along at a time when things were slightly better for black performers and she could take advantage of opportunities that Horne was too old for. They got along as well as they could.

Diahann got her own taste of it with the ascent of Leslie Uggams, and more significantly, Diana Ross.

R65 Natalie Wood looks like she's wearing sparkly pajamas - and looks out of place with the others.

[Quote]What happened to her eyes? There is a grey ring around them.

It's probably Arcus Senilis, which affects the eyes of many elders.

[quote][R65] Natalie Wood looks like she's wearing sparkly pajamas - and looks out of place with the others.

Natalie IS wearing sparkly pajamas, and she looks sensational!

Diahann Carroll has always been a difficult and often delusional person. She's also been a really mean drunk, not opposed to making insensitive racial remarks once half in the bag. I should know I used to serve her plenty of booze and really hated her bizarre drunken nonsense.

I like how Leslie Uggams went up to Diahann Carroll and paid her respects. I love when old legends show courtesy to one another. I'm sure both of them have juicy stories to tell about being black stars in the old days. They were two of several pioneers in the integration of the entertainment world back in the 60s.

[quote]Fuck you, honey -- I played her first!—Ethel Waters

Fuck you both! I was Beulah on radio before either of you bitches!

I heard Dick Rodgers pounded her like a fucking jackhammer!!!

Tragically underused in DYNASTY. Her original storyline was to make her Kirby’s long lost mother, but the Shapiros chickened out at the last minute.

It’s been a few years but I loved her performance in White Collar as June, the streetwise rich widow of a possibly shady character.

Has Susan Dey tweeted any sort of update?

r72 But I was FIRST, Hattie.

R70, what was Miss Carroll's drink of choice? Cocktail, hard liquor neat, Champagne, wine, or beer?

Champale.

Just sharing this gem from 1964. She's on The Danny Kaye Show, and even sings a duet with him towards the end of the clip.

2010 Glad this got taped

One of the other alternatives for the Dominique character was that she would be Cecil Colby's long forgotten first wife (and probably improperly divorced to boot.). Would have been a far richer storyline than Blake's half sister, which nobody wanted to own (and how Dominique amassed a corporation saving fortune to lend to Blake more than once - as a singer - was lazy even for Dynasty.)

I saw her in Sunset Boulevard. Really wasn't impressed.

[Quote]One of the other alternatives for the Dominique character was that she would be Cecil Colby's long forgotten first wife (and probably improperly divorced to boot.). Would have been a far richer storyline than Blake's half sister

I totally agree. It's a shame that they wouldn't take the interracial theme more boldly forward back in the 1980s.

A personal aside: I was in the military when Dynasty was still on, and remember the shock of some of my white shipmates when they saw Dominique Deveraux and Garrett Boydston kissing, with them mentioning that they shouldn't had shown something like that on network television.

Dominique Deveraux giving advice to unidentified fan.

How to check out a fine ass in tight jeans!

R84 Diahann deigned to speak to Diana Ross? I'm still shocked she chatted with archrival Leslie Uggams. R71

She was a whore, darlin'.

I saw her perform at Feinstein's when it was at the Regency Hotel. Maybe 12 years ago. She was on fire! Masterful - sounded great, breathtaking appearance. So elegant and poised. I didn't care for the special at r81. She wasn't really a concert hall performer, much better in intimate venues.

“When Aretha Franklin went to see Diahann Carroll in a production of Sunset Boulevard, in Toronto, she had two seats: one for her, one for the mink.”

1st Class

Was Barbra's hat by Jacques Marcel?

Diahann originated "A Sleepin' Bee" in 'House of Flowers.' Barbra borrowed it and never gave it back.

See Nile.

See Nile get lost on way to liquor cabinet.

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Is that Julia's formal uniform, r90?

A great singer and a great beauty (I remember in the 70s she was voted the greatest cheekbones of any living female American celebrity). She was not a great actress, though.