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Actress Diahann Carroll passes away at 84

I remember how much I liked "Julia" as a child. I don't know that I fully understood its significance. It was just a family show. I was aware that it was unusual to have a black person as a lead actress.

The first time I ever heard of her was on an album of Christmas music my parents had. It was called Album Five and they also had Album Three and Album Four. Other than that I don't know any more about those albums. Andy Williams, Dinah Shore, Steve and Eydie and Sammy Davis Jr. were some of the more familiar names on it.

Wasn't she on the new "Dynasty" or am I just thinking of her character from the John Forsythe series?
 
vchimpanzee said:
I remember how much I liked "Julia" as a child. I don't know that I fully understood its significance. It was just a family show. I was aware that it was unusual to have a black person as a lead actress.

The first time I ever heard of her was on an album of Christmas music my parents had. It was called Album Five and they also had Album Three and Album Four. Other than that I don't know any more about those albums. Andy Williams, Dinah Shore, Steve and Eydie and Sammy Davis Jr. were some of the more familiar names on it.

Wasn't she on the new "Dynasty" or am I just thinking of her character from the John Forsythe series?
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She was on "Dynasty".
 
vchimpanzee said:
I remember how much I liked "Julia" as a child. I don't know that I fully understood its significance. It was just a family show. I was aware that it was unusual to have a black person as a lead actress.

And that is exactly the point. I was also a pre-teen when this show aired. I just thought it to be normal. Historical, yes, but for us young-uns we accepted it with no questions asked. A real turning point.
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I guess it's a tribute to my parents that nothing about Julia struck me as
groundbreaking at the time either.

The idea that a black woman could become a nurse, or have her own network TV show,
or pretty much do anything else, was not regarded as remarkable in our house.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I guess it's a tribute to my parents that nothing about Julia struck me as
groundbreaking at the time either.

The idea that a black woman could become a nurse, or have her own network TV show,
or pretty much do anything else, was not regarded as remarkable in our house.
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Yes, I think we experienced the same thing with this show if you are similar in age to me. Parents so important in these type of issues. Then "All In The Family" came a couple years later, and we could understand it with a larger perspective, and appreciate the humor that was making a huge point for those of us who were 12-14 years old watching this CBS classic. So much of TV back then provided a road-map for progressive thinking, but at the same time with major humor. What a great TV experience for us late baby-boomers!
 
My mom was initially terrified of All in the Family (Season One came with an ominous pre-broadcast disclaimer).
But she eventually became one of its biggest fans.
 
I was 9 when Julia premiered in 1968. Looking back, it was truly a groundbreaking show. My mother and I watched it every week. She had been divorced from my father for nearly 10 years at that point. Perhaps, in some ways, my mother related to seeing a divorced woman with a child my age on TV.
 
eriedj said:
I was 9 when Julia premiered in 1968. Looking back, it was truly a groundbreaking show. My mother and I watched it every week. She had been divorced from my father for nearly 10 years at that point. Perhaps, in some ways, my mother related to seeing a divorced woman with a child my age on TV.
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Divorce wasn't allowed back then. Too controversial for network TV. She lost her husband in the Vietnam War.
 
And the Brady Bunch said that Mike Brady lost his wife to an illness in the first episode, but it never was mentioned again. Carol Brady's situation was never mentioned in any episode. From the internets...

"What happened to Mrs Brady's first husband?
We learn in the first episode that Mike's wife passed away. However, the absence of Carol's first husband remains a mystery. Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the show, wanted her to be divorced. The network wanted her to be a widow, thought being divorced was too risque for the times."
 
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