It was the 1970's when "Mandingo" came out. Folks were just heeling from the rough 60's. A promising young actress named Susan George was on her way up the Hollywood ladder. She just did a movie called "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry". Then she agreed to do a movie about the old south called "Mandingo". In the film she has a love scene with a black boxer/actor named Ken Norton. She agrees and wants to do the love scene. When the movie was released in the summer of 1975. That love scene between her and Ken Norton shocked alot of white people back then. White men the worst!

Susan George couldn't get another major role in Hollywood after "Mandingo". She was reduced to "B' type movies and made for TV movies after that. Hollywood didn't want to see her in any major films or major acting roles after her love scene with Ken Norton in "Mandingo". Hollywood to this day is scared of showing black love. And they don't want to see a big muscular black man with a white woman! I read later on that this movie was not shown in certain areas of the south back in 1975. Don't know if that is true or not. But I do know this to be true. I was 15 years old when I first saw "Mandingo" at the movies in 1975. And remember hearing acouple people gasp when that love scene was shown.