NO, DIANA SANDS DID NOT JUST HAND THE ROLE OF CLAUDINE TO DIAHANN CARROLL

When Diana realized that she was too ill to continue filming John Berry’s Claudine, she put on her co-producer (as member of the collective Third World Cinema) hat and insisted that the show would go on without her.

Carroll is a great Claudine, but in subsequent decades she engaged in a little myth making about how she landed the part.

You’ll read about it in Anything’s Possible, as we spotlight the recollections of cast members James Earl Jones, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs and Tamu Blackwell.