. Her dad disapproved at first, then began to reconsider when she told him she had earned $600 for a session.
program, where she first billed herself as Diahann Carroll. After enrolling at NYU to study psychology, she appeared on the Dennis James-hosted ABC talent show in 1953 and won for several weeks. One of her rewards was a regular engagement to perform at the famed Latin Quarter nightclub in Manhattan.
At the end of 1954, she made her Broadway debut as the young star of the Truman Capote-Harold Arlen musical called her "a plaintive and extraordinarily appealing ingenue." She was cast to play Clara in Preminger and Rouben Mamoulian's movie adaptation of , but her voice was considered too low for her character's "Summertime" number, so another singer dubbed for her.
She would become renowned for her phrasing, partially a result of her studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. In 1963, she earned the first of her four career Emmy noms for portraying a teacher yet again on ABC's gritty Richard Rodgers spotted her during one of her frequent singing appearances on Jack Paar's and decided to compose a Broadway musical for her.
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