Funny Lady, Barbra Streisand’s follow-up to her Broadway and Hollywood triumph Funny Girl (1968) was also James Wong Howe's last film.
Ethel Waters, Broadway star and legendary singer at the Cotton Club during the Harlem Renaissance, plays Pinky’s loving grandmother.
This reimagining of Bizet’s opera Carmen began as an updated 1943 Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway musical featuring an all black cast.
Starring Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life is not merely a well-mounted family drama but a pointed critique on racism in America.
Claudine, a raucous comedy-drama infused with 1970s energy, is a rare cinematic take on the welfare system, starring Diahann Carroll.
