Claudine (1974) - (Movie Clip) I've Actually Avoided Success

Claudine - (Original Trailer)

A single mother falls for a garbage collector who's not sure he's ready to raise six children in Claudine (1974).

Claudine (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Every Tear My Mother Sheds

The second visit of James Earl Jones as stable suburban garbage-man “Roop” Marshall to the Upper Manhattan home of single-mom Diahann Carroll (title character), getting a little more engaged with her kids, Yvette Curtis as second-eldest Patrice, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as protective Charles, in Claudine, 1974.

Claudine (1974) -- (Movie Clip) You Gonna Tell Me What's Heavy?

Continuing from the opening into what must be some location in Westchester County, NY, title character Diahann Carroll arrives at her workplace and meets garbage-man "Roop" (James Earl Jones) clearly not for the first time, Bernie Barrow and Joan Kaye her employers, John Berry directing, in Claudine, 1974.

Claudine (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Vitamin F

With all six kids (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs the tallest, eldest) Bronx native Diahann Carroll (title role, in her Academy Award-nominated performance) in Upper Manhattan, then on the Riverdale bus with friends (Judy Mills et al), in the first and only feature from Ossie Davis’ Third World Cinema Corp., Claudine, 1974.