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Bern Nadette Stanis
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BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times (1974), but there's much more to her than that. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as she was, she still became TV's first black sex symbol or "It" girl. Thelma/BernNadette and the Evans family also proved many stereotypes wrong about the ghetto and the young black girl, such as that all black girls and black families in the ghetto had no hopes, dreams, or class. Thelma showed that a "ghetto girl" had hopes and dreams, intelligence, respect, dignity and grace, and it wasn't just acting--BernNadette was that naturally. She introduced a new definitive image of the young black girl an…
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BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times (1974), but there's much more to her than that. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as she was, she still became TV's first black sex symbol or "It" girl. Thelma/BernNadette and the Evans family also proved many stereotypes wrong about the ghetto and the young black girl, such as that all black girls and black families in the ghetto had no hopes, dreams, or class. Thelma showed that a "ghetto girl" had hopes and dreams, intelligence, respect, dignity and grace, and it wasn't just acting--BernNadette was that naturally. She introduced a new definitive image of the young black girl and woman.
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Bern Nadette Stanis's Filmography
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Once in a Valentine
A Christmas Blessing
as Grace
CHAAW: Chapter 1
as Aunt Thelma
Dreams from the Edge
as Rose Lane
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Self
No Regrets
as Nina's Mother
N-Secure
as Dr. Heather
The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2
Still 'Bout It
as Aunt Tee Dee
Hidden Blessings
as Jackson's lawyer
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