Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “Lady Sings the Blues”

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Diahann Carroll

At some point and time Carroll was one of the many actresses attached to play the lead. Like the other women on the list who didn’t play Holiday, she went on to receive her own Academy-Award nomination for Best Actress, just two years after the release of this film, for her role as a single working mother of six on welfare who soon meets a true, yet complicated love in Claudine.

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