Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a single mother raising six children in the projects of Harlem. What little money she earns comes directly from a rich family for whom she keeps house. Struggling to make ends meet, she resorts to welfare. Claudine works to keep her dignity in the face of the humiliating hoops the welfare system–a system created precisely for women like her–forces her to jump through. She finds grace and romance in a pleasant garbage collector (James Earl Jones). Falling in love, the two work together to fight societal hypocrisy and to keep Claudine’s family unit afloat. ©1974 20th Century Fox Distribution
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I went to Music and Art with a young lady named Yvette she was one of the daughters in Claudine, I remember walking up the hill going to school and she was right in front of me, I gagged , becuase we all loved Claudine, come on James Earl Jones, was sexy, Dianne Carol , Julia,Lawrence Hilton Jacobs,classic harlem.
One of my favorite movies of all time. I know James Earl, Dianne & Lawrence Hilton have still been in the mix over the years but I wonder what ever happened to Tamu & the rest of the kids of this cast?
MEMORIES!!!! I Adore This Film….this movie means so much to me, and to many of us man. 1974! the year i was born….NYC!!
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yea blk men was living it up taking women in that was on welfare taking care of their rugrat kids and everything but now that women are in controle they are making the big bucks they get with us guys and bank their money and spend yours wtf is that? when my wife said she saved up money to get a new car i got sick i would love for her to get a new car yes incase mine breaks down but if i had done it it would have been a big thing about me hidding money
well I am from bmore and I can’t never remember black men doing good. Black women were always the ones doing good as a whole. Black men had jobs but not enough to = up to what was given to black women. Now they are being moved to the side for men and women from India, China and other places and I ain’t mad. That is what they get for thinking crackers are OK. They are losing jobs in rappid numbers here but you can’t tell their dumb @sses that though.
@TheeAssyrian2000AD well im from jersey and blk men did good up till maybe year 2000 after that blk women toke over they have all good jobs blk men lost good jobs such as myself they are driven car and trucks better then the average working blk guy bmw benz lexus trucks
typo: places
Well they did it and now they are doing black women the same way. I live in Baltimore and in the past 6 months I have seen black women in office buildings and hospitals get replaced by chinks, Arabs and people from india over night. That good old white man that they love is the one that replaced them. I can go in offices in bmore and dc and won’t find one black face but thousands of crackers and immigrants from the placed stated above.
@Zuluking76 well now adays its all about money back then it was about getting some blk coochie..watch josephine baker
@TheeAssyrian2000AD the plan is to bring up the blk woman bring down the blk man
@buggeazy102 what you call pushing of their careers is really exploitation, Afrikan women then, like now are being taken advantage of. all of these women if given the chance to expose these industry white men without their careers suffering would do it with little care. it’s sad that Afrikan women sale their bodies to be in a movie. and when they don’t do it like Angela Basset they don’t get work. do you really think dorothy dandridge wanted to sleep with that ugly bald white guy?
~Zuluking~
They also helped to push the black man out of the house. They also helped divide black men and women and the things white men did back them is the reason why so many black women are so blind today.The women of today are no different.
@DEEPTHROAT36 my family wasnt out of controle like that but i can relate to it my aunt in NY adopted like 8 kids back then and her house was more organized and better area then these people but the kids had the same attitude as these kids i use to spend the summer over there it was crazy but fun at times
@CarpeSoul wow wish i could have attended that class i have alot to say about it
@Zuluking76 im not gonna thumb you down back in the day most sucessful blk female actors was involved with white guys in the industry they help push their career
what version of on and on is this cause i cant find it anywhere
i love this movie and the soundtrack
I did a google street view to see what this location (139 edgecombe avenue) looks like today. The building that Claudine lives in has changed. The front entrance of the building was shifted and now goes through what was once Claudine’s apartment.
@filthyfunke
also romantically involved with Sammy Davis Jr. Zuluking, things are not always what they seem.
engage dosen’t mean the same as married. she loves white men more than she likes African men.. she has been married to more white men than she has African men, that’s a fact!!
~Zuluking~
actually she was engage to Sidney P. back in the day.
Bring Claudine out on blu-ray please.
I love this film. Thanks so much for posting!