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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, Black Actors, Black Hollywood, Actrices Hollywood, Hollywood Actor

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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