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Esther Elizabeth Rolle (November 8, 1920 – November 17, 1998) was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or ...
Rosanna Carter. Rosanna Rolle Carter (September 20, 1918 – December 30, 2016) [1] [2] [3] was a Bahamian American television, stage and film actress, who was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to two Bahamian parents, and the sister of Esther Rolle and Estelle Evans, [4] one of 18 children. [5] During the Harlem Renaissance, she acted at New Lafayette ...
Estelle Evans. Estelle Rolle Evans (October 1, 1906 – July 20, 1985) was a Bahamian American actress during the 20th century. Some of her more famous appearances were in the movies The Quiet One (1948), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), and The Learning Tree (1969). Evans was the sister of actresses Rosanna Carter and Esther Rolle .
Ja'Net DuBois. Jeannette Theresa Dubois (August 5 [note 1] – February 17, 2020), known professionally as Ja'Net DuBois, [6] Ja'net DuBois, [4] and Ja'Net Du Bois [1] [7] [n 1] ( / dʒɑːˈneɪduːˈbwɑː / ), was an American actress and singer. She was best known for her portrayal of Willona Woods, the neighborhood gossip maven and a friend ...
United States. Canada. Language. English. Box office. $5.6 million [1] Down in the Delta is a 1998 American-Canadian drama film, directed by Maya Angelou (in her only film directing effort) and starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle (in her final film appearance before her death), Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes .
Good Times. Good Times is an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS, from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom.
Ethnic Notions exposes and describes common stereotypes (The Tom, The Sambo, The Mammy, The Coon, The Brute, The Pickaninnies, The Minstrels) from the period surrounding the Civil War and the World Wars. The stereotypes roll across the screen in cartoons, feature films, popular songs, minstrel shows, advertisements, folklore, household ...
Plot. Walter and Ruth Younger, and their son Travis, along with Walter's mother Lena (Mama) and younger sister Beneatha, live in poverty in a run-down two-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Side. Walter is barely making a living as a limousine driver. Though Ruth is content with their lot, Walter desperately wishes to become wealthy.