Nell’s home for her sister’s wedding in. Alabama.
Nell Carter, Tea Hopkins, and Lynne Thigpen do their thing.
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Nell’s home for her sister’s wedding in. Alabama.
Nell Carter, Tea Hopkins, and Lynne Thigpen do their thing.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 12, 2024 1:47 AM |
Sorry, TELMA Hopkins.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 8, 2024 6:26 PM |
LOVE this! Too bad they didn’t make Lynne Thigpen a permanent (or recurring) part of the cast.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 8, 2024 7:07 PM |
Lynn Thigpen was so talented. I was lucky enough to see her in "Tintypes" on Broadway, where she brought the house down at the end of Act I by singing Bert Williams's great old song "Nobody."
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 8, 2024 7:11 PM |
Thigpen was great in “Godspell” when she sings “O Bless the lord My Soyl.”
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 8, 2024 7:45 PM |
These three women had so much talent between them. And by this point in the series, the show was less and less about the girls.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 8, 2024 7:47 PM |
I just saw Thelma when she and Joyce came out on stage to sing "tie a yellow ribbon" with Tony Orlando. I'd link it but I don't have a clue where I saw it, some reel somewhere. He looked ...unfortunate. the girls looked terrific
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 8, 2024 7:55 PM |
Awwww, R6! Tony Orlando and Dawn makes me think of my mom.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 8, 2024 8:03 PM |
I have a weird distant connection to Gimme a Break. My stepsister was a writer on the show. I didn’t grow up with her; her father and my mother married when I was 18 and she was a few years older.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 8, 2024 8:47 PM |
Hopkins looks good.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 9, 2024 12:36 AM |
My mother (referenced in R8) always swore that Tony Orlando never got over Freddie Prinze’s death.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 9, 2024 12:55 AM |
I was lucky to see Thigpen in college theater. A star even then.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 9, 2024 2:19 AM |
Not because she was black but hated that Nell Carter-thought she was Hattie McDaniel.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 9, 2024 4:49 AM |
I love this.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 9, 2024 10:00 AM |
Dollface thread 🪆 🧵
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 9, 2024 10:48 AM |
If this was made today this thread would be full of Freepers whining about DEI and wokeness.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 9, 2024 11:00 AM |
Well, Carter had a lot of talent and was offered a sitcom after her huge success in “Ain’t Misbehavin’”. And the part they wrote for her was basically a modern-day mammy; it’s not surprising that that the show started digressing from that after a couple seasons and became “Nell and Addy.”
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 9, 2024 11:00 AM |
Nell Carter, no matter how big she was, always moved like a hot skinny chick.
So talented, a closeted lesbian and a wild cocaine enthusiast.
There's your trifecta.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 9, 2024 12:16 PM |
R12- He always seemed like a big QUEEN 👸 to me.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 9, 2024 12:21 PM |
Great show ! Sorry Nell Carter had such a difficult life . Great comedic actress with a great voice .
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 9, 2024 2:32 PM |
[quote]Too bad they didn’t make Lynne Thigpen a permanent (or recurring) part of the cast.
I don't know how many times one has to appear as the same character to be considered "recurring," but I think she made at least 3 appearances as Nell's sister over the course of the series, so I assume that may have been enough to categorize her as a recurring member of the cast.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 9, 2024 6:12 PM |
Though I loved this scene in which Nell sang "Amazing Grace" at her father's funeral, the fact they interrupted it for a sappy insert with Carl and Samantha was ridiculous in my opinion. That shit could've waited until after the song was over.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 9, 2024 6:19 PM |
I will never forget Telma Hopkins being flipped onto a couch by Nell in the opening credits.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 9, 2024 7:27 PM |
Nell verbally and physically abused the entire cast onscreen
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 9, 2024 9:19 PM |
[quote] I think she made at least 3 appearances as Nell's sister over the course of the series, so I assume that may have been enough to categorize her as a recurring member of the cast.
It's not.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 9, 2024 9:22 PM |
Not all of these were Motown songs.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 9, 2024 9:29 PM |
I think I"d rather have seen Nell Carter as Mama Rose in Gypsy over Audra McD.
It's a shame she didn't do more live theatre. I saw her in Ain't Misbahavin'..... she was the real deal onstage.
You can see it in this clip.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 11, 2024 1:58 AM |
R23 Is that the episode when Sam was pissed at Nell and got Joey to do blackface? That shit trips me out.
I don't remember "Gimme A Break" when it aired and I barely remember "227" and "Amen," but I STILL watch them ANY chance I get.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 11, 2024 11:56 AM |
Love Nell she was such a talent!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 11, 2024 9:53 PM |
I really like the episode with the earthquake - Nell’s trapped in the library basement.
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