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ArikAftermath: Sidney Poitier was a dreamboat.
erosen1: 2/2 Among Bailey's screen credits was the role of Frankie in Carmen Jones,which had her rendition of the song “Beat Out That Rhythm on the Drum.”She played Maria in the film version of Porgy & Bess w/ Sidney Poitier & Dorothy Dandridge. In the 70s she starred in her own TV shows.
carogranner: i wonder about the butterfly effect that would have resulted from sidney poitier taking martin sheen's role on the west wing
DTNEtiquette: I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. ~ Sidney Poitier
TheRobCee: A German adaptation of the Sidney Poitier film about an American teacher in a foreign country called To Herr With Love.
RTabletops: 10 Different Movie Stills B&W Sidney Poitier 1971 Film "Brother John"
JayAGlennie: Sidney Poitier and John Wayne.
A rare pic of Wayne sans his hairpiece on the set of George Stevens The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
Joanna__: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."Sidney Poitier
Inspired2Share: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."Sidney Poitier
QuotePicNet: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."Sidney Poitier
alf_love47: People talking Potter at CFC. No thanks, every time I hear that name I think of Grandad in Fools & Horses who called Sidney Poitier as Potter?
StigmabaseO: [Racial-AM] This celebrates a coming of age': David Harewood on how Black American culture took ...: The actor's new documentary series salutes 50 years of African American creativity, from Sidney Poitier and Stevie Wonder to Beyoncé and Black ...
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AnandaPradip: Before Paul Robeson & Sidney Poitier...
Michell61313535: Remember the Harry Belafonte's, Sidney Poitier, Muhammad Ali, Lena HORN, Eartha Kitts. Fought for CIVIL RIGHTS!
johndegarson: Glynn Turman Started His Career on Broadway Alongside Sidney Poitier
DuncanHarkis: Richard Widmark
Sidney Poitier
Made two great movies I know off can you name them ?
UNC1374C0: Sidney Poitier looks like that kid who makes better grades and is more athletic than you but you can't be mad because he's so damn nice.
pagetoscreen: 'There are not all that many actors who can portray that kind of total integrity' - Christopher Hampton on the exemplary Sidney Poitier who reprised his role in this groundbreaking film which tackled the hottest topics of the 1960s.
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HonPhilipEDavis: These children stand on the shoulders of icons like Sidney Poitier, and I am confident that they will carry our island's proud heritage forward. Being a Cat Islander is an honour. Proud to call this place home.
MaggottyBread: Sidney Poitier - Breaking Down Hollywood's Color Barrier
talcotts: There’s a Gene Wilder/Gilda Radner movie directed by Sidney Poitier?!
Seriously, I am not exaggerating when I say Tubi is the best streaming service.
HGACinema: Sidney Poitier outside the Apollo Theatre in Midtown Manhattan, New York City in 1959.
Photo by Sam Falk for The New York Times.
CristiMilla1: Sidney Poitier with Suzy Kendall in a promo for TO SIR, WITH LOVE ('67)
kennysroys: Sidney Poitier verbally abusing Diahann Carroll during their relationship pisses me off to this day
tcm: Before Mahershala Ali, Idris Elba and even Sidney Poitier, there was Paul Robeson.
The son of an escaped slave, this athlete and activist became Hollywood’s first Black star during Jim Crow America. We celebrate his work and legacy as our Star of the Month Sundays in September.
TDubsGoonSquad: January 6 was a terrible day for America.
It’s the day Sidney Poitier died.
MuricaForEvs: I relate with Sidney Poitier. Never have I related to a movie scene more than this one. It would do us all good to follow in Mr. Poitier’s character’s footsteps.
klaasm67: Watching The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) with Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier. Both are on the run from the police in apartheid-era South Africa. It was filmed in Kenya. Funny to see Dutch actors Rutger Hauer and Rijk de Gooyer as South Africans.
i_starfish: next one might be a raisin in the sun bc i really enjoyed the play and i've been meaning to get into sidney poitier
MikeArc39439138: March 24 in history: (2002) Film stars Denzel Washington and Halle Berry became the second and third African Americans to win Academy Awards for performances in leading roles.
Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field (1963).
jpv4real: Art of the Day: "Sidney Poitier, Thespian". Buy at:
PastorFriendly: Academy award winner Sidney Poitier said, “When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you adjust to their pace, or they adjust yours.” Whose pace are you adjusting to?
thefilmsalon: The Film Salon Presents: Join us Saturday, April 1st, for Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, Buck and the Preacher at Alamo Drafthouse! -
KingKinvar: Marlon Wayans had me losing my shit, but the joke about Black actors winning Oscar's kinda missed the mark, because not only had 5 (not 4) Black men won Best Actor (Sidney Poitier 1963, Denzel Washington 2001, Jamie Foxx 2004, Forest Whitaker 2006, and Will Smith 2021), but he…
kcdracula: this one
HollywoodYeste1: Sidney Poitier on the set of In the Heat of the Night (1967, directed by Norman Jewison)
CG_Crawford: Danny Glover played the hell out of Walter Lee in A Raisin in the Sun (1989). I know a lot of people like Sidney Poitier's version of Walter Lee in the 1961 film adaptation, but DANNY??? He embodied the posture, terror, emotion, and fullness of Walter Lee from head-to-toe.
jeffmetcalfe: ASU Sidney Poitier New American Film School
teacake1995: The same reason why Sidney Poitier isn’t on y’all’s
gutflora_: watching Edge of the City and cassavetes is soo babygirl in this i hope he and sidney poitier kiss
Rayantrendyme: I have this feeling that life is so magically created that if I respect it, that respect will come circling back to me in ways I don’t even know.
- Sidney Poitier
mdassisonline: 1969. Sidney Poitier & James Baldwin.
PackerLadyGB: Watching the defiant ones with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. 1958.
whattheshot: Sidney Poitier played in a lot of movies, like this one. Can you find the title? 5 min to answer!
cjubarrington: Sidney Poitier and John Wayne on the set of The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
lorrainemking: Not forgetting Denzel Washington who won an Oscar in the best actor category that year - the first black actor to win an Oscar in that category since the late Sidney Poitier in 1963 ❤️
MichaelWarbur17: Sidney Poitier and John Wayne on the set of ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’ (1965)
CroftonBooks: Ah yes.
We were just discuss Everett’s, I am not Sidney Poitier, yesterday …
tafkam08: Absolutely tripping. Jeffrey Wright acts circles around Tom Cruise.
Denzel
Sir Sidney Poitier
Donald Sutherland
Christian Bale
Robert Downey, Jr
All better than Tom Cruise
getittogo1: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. and Sir Sidney Poitier would like a word
2drawTaught: Throwback Thursday. Classic Black Cinema. Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier in what movie?
thelastglow: March 22, 1985 the world was introduced to the glorious combination of Kung-Fu & Motown! Happy 38th Anniversary to The Last Dragon.
Check out Denise Matthews, Smokey Robinson, Cheryl Ladd, Sidney Poitier, Lola Falana, Simon MacCorkindale, Berry Gordy & Taimak at the Premiere
ARFadoptions: Adopted: SIDNEY POITIER, Eight-week-old Domestic Short Hair Cat
_indebakure_: 11. Sidney Poitier
Born in 1927, Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian and American actor and film director. The late actor was the first black actor and the first Bahamian to win an Academy Award.
farcednamebasis: Always on the lookout for comedy Westerns that Anna might enjoy, this Guardian article about the re-release of Sidney Poitier's directorial debut made us wish we hadn't missed its 50th anniversary last year.
TaffettaCrafts: Sidney Poitier and Freda Payne, Los Angeles, ca. 1976.(Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN) Goodnight.
ClassicCinemaCC: Join us on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 as we view "Lilies of the Valley" (1963) ...An itinerant worker encounters a group of East German nuns who believe he has been sent by God to build them a new chapel. Starring Sidney Poitier and Lilia Skala.
DorianBasson: Sidney Poitier's Heartfelt Surprise That Made Oprah Cry | The Oprah Winf...
MichaelWarbur17: The late great SIDNEY POITIER talks about how it was almost an impossibility for a film like “GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?” to get made in 1967, and how his relationship with his own Father impacted his performance in the Film.
MichaelWarbur17: Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton in a publicity shot for GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967).
samuelwr33: “I simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.” –Sidney Poitier
TCMonehour: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
D: Norman Jewison | Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
12:15AM EDT
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta,...
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KilnTheatre: Cast:
Ian Bonar (Bobby)
Ivanno Jeremiah (Sidney Poitier)
Daniel Lapaine (Mr Parks)
Creative Team:
Ryan Calais Cameron (Playwright)
Amit Sharma (Director)
katiel_carter: A belated rec in honor of Bruce Willis’ birthday yesterday: the 1997 thriller THE JACKAL, which you can stream on Starz. Bruce is a hitman who gets to don a bunch of silly disguises and go toe-to-toe with Richard Gere. The supporting cast includes Sidney Poitier AND Jack Black.
JamesL1927: SIDNEY POITIER visits TONY CURTIS and JACK LEMMON on the set of…
…SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959.
wooodsage: I am totally in love with Sidney Poitier after watching a patch of blue, that man was beautiful
leuschkecea: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIDNEY POITIER: Hollywood icon who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Acto STWHWIE
Elizabe53738531: It was with much sadness when I learned that Sidney Poitier passed away. The sadness comes from my Father. Besides Muhammad Ali and Jesus. Sidney Poitier was my Father's Favorite Man. I used to watch him with Dad. I feel it is a deep loss to the world. God bless Him.
Crabiele: Sidney Poitier in South Park
KilnTheatre: When Sidney Poitier died, tributes flooded in from Hollywood legends, paying their respect to the biggest legend of them all.
Explore a true moment from his career with Retrograde:
Quotesme_: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."Sidney Poitier
MugginsMcS: The Muggins Film Festival continues with this 1950 Film Noir starring the great Sidney Poitier! This sounds like it's going to be very intense. This is a first watch!
JupiterSpurlock: Robert McFerrin Sr. (March 19, 1921 – November 24, 2006) was an American operatic baritone and the first African-American man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He provided the singing voice for Sidney Poitier in "Porgy and Bess" (1959).
CAOH110291: Sidney Poitier
BringinUpBotty: In a small Jury Box, one overworked and underpaid actor must herd cockroaches and learn the power of a slap in the face and a poke in the eye. Starring Sidney Poitier in: Fun of America.
80s_channel: Little Nikita 1988 Trailer Sidney Poitier River Phoenix
poetLORRYate: ‘In the Heat of the Night’ staring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier.
scarjocasting: Johansson to star as Sidney Poitier in apocalyptic reboot of Psycho
chamilravinda: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Louis Gossett, Ivan Dixon, Stephen Perry
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
jjconceptsinc: 'First started acting turned down $600,000. Didn't want to play, The N*gga They Couldn't Kill, and because Sidney Poitier said to me, remember, the first three or four movies you do will determine how you are perceived.' - Denzel Washington
AdamDechanel: The life of Sidney Poitier takes the spotlight in new play Retrograde at the Kiln!
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TheatreWireUK: The life of Sidney Poitier takes the spotlight in new play Retrograde at the Kiln!
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HappinessNews: "If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough. "
~Sidney Poitier~
MashedUpMovies: Ransom, starring Sidney Poitier. Co-starring Gerard Butler, directed by Lars von Trier, music by Randy Newman. Budget: $100
WhatsOnStage: The life of Sidney Poitier takes the spotlight in new play Retrograde at the Kiln!
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JMTWITTY1: A couple of days ago, I saw 1971 film The Organization, starring Sidney Poitier in final appearance as Virgil Tibbs. The film also stars Raul Julia, who best known for playing Gomez Addams and M. Bison, in one of his earliest roles.
DCAdundee: Grab your chance to see Buck and the Preacher on the big screen at DCA Cinema, tonight 20:30!
iLevelSports: The APEX of human character is not a professional athlete, celebrity or entertainers public life, it’s The Measure of our personal how well we have done at measuring up to the values we espouse, the standards we set for ourselves
iLevelSports: The APEX of human character is not a professional athlete, celebrity or entertainers public life, it’s The Measure of our personal how well we have done at measuring up to the values we espouse, the standards we set for ourselves
D7353162Santos: Remembering Sidney Poitier: A look back at the actor's groundbreaking legacy.
gamyuuza: There was this sidney poitier film that i rlly liked as a kid but it has b!ll so it got ruined ☹️☹️
Jorge_Punch: SIDNEY POITIER
b_2cool: Cartier, Sidney Poitier, hooray ish
PIPEDREAMZENT: Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier in Uptown Saturday.
Dw40031913: Avid Brings World Vision Tour to Arizona State University’s MIX Center -
OctopusMask: Wait when did Sidney Poitier die? Did we talk about that on here?
amkingmilf: Sidney Poitier just arrived in chapter 3, essentially on accident.
IFinestQuotes: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."Sidney Poitier
sharetw_: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."Sidney Poitier
ActingMagazine: "I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."
(Sidney Poitier)
