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Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones. Everett Collection. Acting opposite Tony Curtis, Poitier made history — not for the last time — by scoring a Best Actor Oscar nomination, ...
Sidney Poitier died today at 94 and was the first major black film star in Hollywood. ... In the end, Tony Curtis took the part of Joker and was nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars also, ...
Sidney Poitier stars opposite Tony Curtis in 1958's "The Defiant Ones." ... Sidney Poitier is shown embracing the character who plays his mother in the movie "A Raisin in the Sun," released in 1961.
‘Sidney’ Review: Oprah-Produced Poitier Doc Doesn’t Dig Deeply Enough. ... (Tony Curtis) he has grown to care for, is swept aside so that it can be fully endorsed by Winfrey, ...
Sidney Poitier was a light in Hollywood and in life, illuminating the path for Black actors who came after him. ... In the film, Tony Curtis and Poitier play escaped prisoners, ...
In 1958, he was the first Black actor nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor for his role as an escaped convict chained to Tony Curtis in "The Defiant Ones." Sidney Poitier 1927-2022 53 photos ...
Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in a scene from ‘The Defiant Ones’. Poitier was born just two years after the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929. Thirty years later, ...
Tony Curtis was a strikingly handsome 23-year-old native New ... Award nomination for best actor in “The Defiant Ones,” the convict-escape film in which he was chained to costar Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich were geniuses of the Hollywood ... in which he has equal billing with Tony Curtis. A year later, though, Poitier is on his knees playing Porgy in “Porgy ...
Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in a scene from ‘The Defiant Ones’. Poitier was born just two years after the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929. Thirty years later, ...
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