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In the 1950s and '60s, Sidney Poitier won international fame as a film actor and transformed the image of African Americans in the cinema. Although others had enjoyed success in character roles or as musical performers, Poitier won fame as a dramatic actor and romantic leading man, embodying an entire people's struggle for social equality. Sidney Poitier rose to a position of international eminence from a childhood of poverty in the Bahamas, where he spent the first years of his life on a…

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Sidney Poitier, 1967, and One of the Most Remarkable Runs in Hollywood | Vanity Fair Sidney Poitier, Best Actor Oscar, Beloved Movie, Oscar Award, Black Entertainment, Vintage Black Glamour, Black Actors, Black Hollywood, Actrices Hollywood

Five decades ago, at the height of the civil-rights movement, America’s most beloved movie actor was a black man whose three films that year—To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner—made him king of the Hollywood box office. How the actor’s coolly uncompromising navigation of that status helped send a pointed message to white America.

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