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  2. Beulah (radio and TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Beulah is an American sitcom that ran on CBS Radio from 1945 to 1954, and on ABC Television from 1950 to 1953. The show is notable for being the first sitcom to star an African-American actress, for being ABC TV's first hit situation comedy, and the first hit TV sitcom without a laugh track. The show was controversial for its caricatures of ...

  3. Black sitcom - Wikipedia

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    The first television sitcom to principally portray black people, Amos 'n' Andy, was widely popular among diverse audiences.The actors on the original radio show were both White, but the 1951–53 CBS television show portrayed them with Black actors, and represented Black individuals as businesspeople, judges, lawyers and policemen.

  4. Ethel Waters - Wikipedia

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    In 1950, she won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for her performance opposite Julie Harris in the play The Member of the Wedding. Waters and Harris repeated their roles in the 1952 film version. In 1950, Waters was the first African-American actress to star in a television series, Beulah, which aired on ABC television from 1950 through ...

  5. List of African-American actors - Wikipedia

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    Brittany O'Grady,actress (African-American mother) Keke Palmer,actress Sydney Park (actress),actress (African-American mother) Madison Pettis,actress(African-American father) Taylor Polidore,actress Trevante Rhodes ,actor Tequan Richmond,actor Lee Rodriguez,actress and singer (African-American mother) Kara Royster,actress

  6. Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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    Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...

  7. Carolyn Jones - Wikipedia

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    Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film. [1] [2] She began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising new actresses of 1959.

  8. Emmy Awards in the 1950s, '60s and '70s: See glamorous ...

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    Emmy Awards gowns looked very different in the 1950s, '60s and '70s-- and the vintage snapshots are truly stunning. ... Virginia Mayo also stunned in a strapless black gown with pearl and jewled ...

  9. Ellen Holly - Wikipedia

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    Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 6, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1968–1980; 1983–1985).