Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Hollywood trailblazer Sidney Poitier dies aged 94 - BBC News" video.

  1. His parents were Bahamian farmers who had travelled to the US to sell tomatoes. His premature birth meant he gained US citizenship as well as Bahamian.
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  2. Blackboard Jungle (1955) and Edge of the City (1957), such diverse rolls and only 2 years apart. In Blackboard Jungle he was really a co-star with Glenn Ford, and for these mid-1950s American rolls, he did not play to stereotype, and never did. America of the 1950s is not what the BBC often describes, these two movies show that.
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