TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz BenMank77 remembers Sidney Poitier, who got his first Hollywood role in director Joseph Mankiewicz’s “No Way Out” in 1950.
When director Joseph Mankiewicz cast the pioneering Black actor in his first film role in 1950, one of the defining screen stars of the 20th century was bornThere was no mistaking the figure making his way across the concourse at halftime of a UCLA basketball game at Pauley Pavilion in the fall of 2002. Seventy-five years old and still strikingly handsome, Sidney Poitier couldn’t have stood out more if he’d had a spotlight on him.
For what it’s worth, I hardly ever approach celebrities. But this time was different. At the Academy Awards earlier that year, Poitier had been given an honorary Oscar “in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being.” In his speech, Poitier, who died this month at 94, remarked on the uncharted path he had followed since arriving in Hollywood in 1949 as a 22-year-old Bahamian-American, brand new to the movies.
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