title: Claudine (soundtrack)
The Sweetest Sounds (song)
Luther Saxon
Diahann Carroll
Carmen Jones (film)
Claudine (film)
Julia (TV series)
The Five Heartbeats
The Diahann Carroll Show
Carmen Jones
sentences: Claudine is a Gladys Knight & the Pips album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield.
 The disc is the soundtrack album for the 1974 20th Century Fox motion picture "Claudine", starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll.
 The album was released in March 1974 on the Buddah label.
"The Sweetest Sounds" is a popular song, with words and music written by Richard Rodgers for the 1962 musical "No Strings".
 The song opens and closes the show for characters Barbara Woodruff and David Jordan, performed by Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley in the original Broadway theatre production and subsequent cast recording.
Luther Saxon is an American tenor who appeared in the role of Joe in the 1943 Broadway musical "Carmen Jones".
 He was born July 12, 1916 in Fairfax, South Carolina, USA.
 He also appears in the original cast album (Decca DL 9021), recorded in 1955 as well as Susanna, Don't You Cry [Musical, Romance, Original] along with the Hall Johnson Choir during May 22, 1939 - May 27, 1939.
 During his career he toured extensively around the world as a soloist with the de Paur’s Infantry Chorus.
 He currently lives in Maryland outside Washington DC, recently celebrating his 100th birthday.
Diahann Carroll ( ) (born Carol Diahann Johnson, July 17, 1935) is an American television and stage actress and singer known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including "Carmen Jones" (1954) and "Porgy and Bess" (1959) as well as on Broadway. "
Julia" (1968) was one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role and was followed by her portrayal of Dominique Deveraux in the primetime soap opera "Dynasty" over three seasons.
 She is the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress In A Television Series" in 1968.
 A breast cancer survivor and activist, Carroll was scheduled to return to the Broadway stage in the 2014 revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" as Mama, but withdrew prior to opening citing the demands of the rehearsal and performance schedule.
Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
 The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the libretto for the 1943 stage production of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was inspired by an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella "Carmen" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
 Hammerstein also wrote the lyrics to music composed by Georges Bizet for his 1875 opera "Carmen".
Claudine is a 1974 American comedy-drama/romantic film, produced by Third World Films and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
 Starring James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, it is noted for being one of the few mainstream films featuring an African-American cast released during that time which was not a blaxploitation film.
Julia was an American sitcom notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role.
 Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants.
 The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971.
 The series was produced by Savannah Productions, Inc., Hanncarr Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television.
The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans.
 Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, and Diahann Carroll.
 The plot of the film (which is loosely based on the lives of several artists: The Dells, The Temptations, Four Tops, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) follows the three decade career of the rhythm and blues vocal group The Five Heartbeats.
 The film depicts the rise and fall of a Motown inspired soul act through the eyes of one of the Heartbeats, Donald "Duck" Matthews.
The Diahann Carroll Show is a series of four musical variety television specials, starring Diahann Carroll, that aired on CBS in 1976.
 The show was a summer replacement for "The Carol Burnett Show".
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.
 Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera "Carmen" updated to a World War II-era African-American setting.
 (Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée.)
 The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short.
 Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show.

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 Claudine is a Gladys Knight & the Pips album, written and produced by Curtis Mayfield.
 The disc is the soundtrack album for the 1974 20th Century Fox motion picture "Claudine", starring James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll.
 The album was released in March 1974 on the Buddah label. 

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 Diahann Carroll ( ) (born Carol Diahann Johnson, July 17, 1935) is an American television and stage actress and singer known for her performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including "Carmen Jones" (1954) and "Porgy and Bess" (1959) as well as on Broadway. "
Julia" (1968) was one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role and was followed by her portrayal of Dominique Deveraux in the primetime soap opera "Dynasty" over three seasons.
 She is the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress In A Television Series" in 1968.
 A breast cancer survivor and activist, Carroll was scheduled to return to the Broadway stage in the 2014 revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" as Mama, but withdrew prior to opening citing the demands of the rehearsal and performance schedule. 

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 Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
 The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the libretto for the 1943 stage production of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was inspired by an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella "Carmen" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
 Hammerstein also wrote the lyrics to music composed by Georges Bizet for his 1875 opera "Carmen". 

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 Claudine is a 1974 American comedy-drama/romantic film, produced by Third World Films and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
 Starring James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, it is noted for being one of the few mainstream films featuring an African-American cast released during that time which was not a blaxploitation film. 

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 Julia was an American sitcom notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role.
 Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants.
 The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971.
 The series was produced by Savannah Productions, Inc., Hanncarr Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television. 

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 The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans.
 Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, and Diahann Carroll.
 The plot of the film (which is loosely based on the lives of several artists: The Dells, The Temptations, Four Tops, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) follows the three decade career of the rhythm and blues vocal group The Five Heartbeats.
 The film depicts the rise and fall of a Motown inspired soul act through the eyes of one of the Heartbeats, Donald "Duck" Matthews. 

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 The Diahann Carroll Show is a series of four musical variety television specials, starring Diahann Carroll, that aired on CBS in 1976.
 The show was a summer replacement for "The Carol Burnett Show". 

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 Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.
 Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera "Carmen" updated to a World War II-era African-American setting.
 (Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée.)
 The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short.
 Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show. 

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Answer: Georges Bizet