In an Oscar-nominated performance, Diahann Carroll stars as Claudine, a black working-class mother in Harlem struggling to make ends meet. Claudine was produced by Hannah Weinstein for the Third World Cinema Corporation, which promoted work for black actors and film practitioners. Weinstein had previously secretly employed many blacklisted writers as a producer of British television’s Robin Hood in the 1950s. Claudine was directed by John Berry, a filmmaker who had been blacklisted in the early 1950s. The film marked his return to American cinema after many years working in Europe and continued his interest in the intersection of race and social class.

Screening as part of Look Who’s Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist. Multi-film pass available.