![]() ![]() ![]() He'd played the best buddy of white fellow dockworker John Cassavetes in 1957's Edge of the City and gotten an Oscar nomination as Tony Curtis' chain gang "partner" in The Defiant Ones, which no black male actor had ever done.īut given its stage pedigree, Sun on-screen had a lot on its shoulders, even if the production was modest. Taking his own giant step, Poitier had already been a "co-equal" groundbreaker. Louis Blues), or given black actors occasional good roles in films where whites were the primary focus (Poitier's own screen debut in 1950's No Way Out) or even cast white actors as blacks in dramas about racial "passing" ( Pinky, Lost Boundaries). Until then, mainstream Hollywood had near-exclusively hired black casts for musicals or dramas with music ( Hallelujah!, Cabin in the Sky, Carmen Jones, St. ![]()
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