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In the decades after her film debut in 1962, Blossom Blackwood quickly became a household name earning her place among Hollywood luminaries and proving, again and again, that she is indisputably that she is a generational talent. Is it any surprise that the family she built is still one of the most famous Black families in Hollywood? Hollis loves her family but she never wanted to be in the public eye.

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