You most likely bear in mind Esther Rolle greatest from the traditional seventies TV sequence Good Instances. It was actually one thing of an anomaly again then: the present, which ran for six seasons from 1974-79, showcased a Black household, attempting to assist one another the perfect they may.
Initially, the writers and Norman Lear himself wished Esther’s character, Florida Evans, to be a mom elevating her three children on her personal. However Esther put her foot down and demanded that John Amos, the actor who had appeared as her husband on Maude, be an integral a part of the present as properly. And what? It labored. Esther and John had nice chemistry collectively.