Word: diahann
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Paris Blues (United Artists) has something for the tourists: autumn in Paris. It has something for the cats: regressive jazz by Duke Ellington. It has something for the newspaper ads: a hint of interracial romance. It has something for the marquee: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Louis Armstrong. All it lacks is something to pull these parts into a sensible whole...
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Andy Williams in The Man in the Moon, a musical special, with Lisa Kirk, Tony Randall, Diahann Carroll, Bambi Linn and Jester Hairston. Color...
...with his candid camera, and Singer Carol (Once Upon a Mattress) Burnett, whom Moore considers "the one major comedy talent among girls to come along in the last ten years." There is also a list of about 35 "semi-regular" guests. This week the visitors were Jack Benny and Diahann Carroll, but it was crew-cut Garry Moore, as usual, who clinched the show. Whether he was acting "a nice Arthur Godfrey," a wide-awake Perry Como, or the aging kid next door, Moore's casual, easy humor made everything come off-from a far-out science-fiction skit...
...Relax. By the time Diahann entered New York University (to study sociology), she had decided that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl...
After countless TV appearances. Diahann landed the role of Clara in Sam Goldwyn's gilded production of Porgy, was horrified when Musical Director Andre Previn permitted her only to mouth the lyrics to Summertime, dubbed in the voice of French-English Songstress Loulie Jean Norman. Explains Previn: "Diahann's voice was a full five tones too low." But Previn also thinks that Diahann has only begun to find her way on that ladder. "When she learns to relax as much on a nightclub floor as in the studio," says he, "she ought to scare people to death...