JamesG
11-28-2020, 05:21 AM
Playing Diana Buchanan, fiancé to Jimmy Walker’s J.J., “was my very first acting role in television in a major nighttime show. I had done Captain Kangaroo before that, but that was the first real, prime time show that I did,” Debbie Allen recalls.
“It was a big deal all the way around. I was there visiting Ralph Carter, who had played my young brother Travis in Raisin, a musical version of Raisin in the Sun, and the casting woman saw me waiting. She said, “Oh, who are you?,” and I told her I was Debbie Allen. She said, “Can you act?” I said, “Yes, ma’am.”
Allen read for the part, got it, “and then it all happened,” she adds. Shooting the two-part episode “was fun, and Jimmy felt comfortable with me.”
https://tvline.com/lists/debbie-allen-tv-roles-greys-anatomy-fame-photos/good-times-2/
“It was a big deal all the way around. I was there visiting Ralph Carter, who had played my young brother Travis in Raisin, a musical version of Raisin in the Sun, and the casting woman saw me waiting. She said, “Oh, who are you?,” and I told her I was Debbie Allen. She said, “Can you act?” I said, “Yes, ma’am.”
Allen read for the part, got it, “and then it all happened,” she adds. Shooting the two-part episode “was fun, and Jimmy felt comfortable with me.”
https://tvline.com/lists/debbie-allen-tv-roles-greys-anatomy-fame-photos/good-times-2/