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The suit has been in a tricky place for the past few years. And yet the suit stays in the picture—you just have to know where to look.
On the actor’s 92nd birthday, photos from early in his career show how he elegantly carried “the terrific burden” of the hopes and aspirations of an entire people.
“Sidney Poitier in a publicity still for To Sir, with Love (1967)”
“You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were.”
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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…
