Warfield
Americannoun
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“My best friend, Kym Whitley, says she’s bringing an empty suitcase so she can steal stuff from the greenrooms,” which Shepherd had decorated with memorabilia to honor funny women including Lucille Ball, Joan Rivers, Marsha Warfield and Whoopi Goldberg.
From Los Angeles Times
The cast includes William Warfield, Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway, who at one point is shown scat-singing in a Vienna tavern, a born entertainer caught in a wonderfully loose, lithe and swinging performance.
And Warfield and Price’s rendition of “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” is downright transcendent, the music pouring out of Price in particular in a way that immediately makes sense of the legendary career that then lay before her.
This is a factor of series creator Julian Fellowes tapping Sonja Warfield as his co-showrunner and hiring Black writers for the room, proving the benefit of insisting on diversity in storytelling perspectives.
From Salon
From there, Fellowes and Warfield made up most of the names for the drama’s principal characters, although the Russells’ rise closely mirrors that of the Vanderbilts.
From Salon
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