Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Claudine”
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Veronica Wells
What did Ossie Davis have to do with it?
Though Davis didn’t star in the film himself, in 1971, he and a group of other minority individuals in the industry collaborated to create the Third World Cinema Corporation. The organization was one of the few minority controlled motion picture production companies. The group sought to produce films starring blacks and other minority groups. The group also sought to train other minority actors. Claudine was the corporation’s first film.
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