Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon

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index Abernathy, Ralph, 291–93, 333 Academy Awards, 22, 146, 215–20, 255, 291–92, 324–25, 378–80 Across 110th Street, 326 Adam’s Rib, 277 Africa: on film, 77–78, 82, 123–28, 130– 32, 349–51, 372–73 AHAB, 321 Albert, Marvin H., 248 Alcalde, Mario, 181 Alexander, Stephen, 237–38 Ali, 378 Ali, Muhammad, 278, 333–34 Alley, Kirstie, 363 All the Young Men, 180–83 Amateau, Rod, 350 American Civil Liberties Union, 333 American Negro Theatre, 42, 43; history and philosophy, 45–46, 51; and Anna Lucasta, 46–47; changes in mid-1940s, 47–48; decline of, 55–57. See also Broadway, blacks and Amos, John, 353 Amos ‘n’ Andy, 22, 92, 95 Anderson, Eddie ‘‘Rochester,’’ 35 Anderson, Esther, 342–43 Anderson, Marion, 251 Andersson, Bibi, 248–49 Andrews, Julie, 270, 324 The Angel Levine, 337 Anna Lucasta, 43, 46–47, 51, 54–55, 57 Apollo Theatre, 33, 91, 132, 346–47 Armstrong, Louis, 33, 188, 191–92, 291 Ashton, Harold, 207 Asner, Ed, 328 Aurthur, Robert Alan, 114–19, 121, 276, 289–90, 315, 317, 319–20. See also Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights; Edge of the City; For Love of Ivy; The Lost Man; A Man Is Ten Feet Tall Autry, Gene 20 Aykroyd, Dan, 370, 375 Bacall, Lauren, 113 Baez, Joan, 210 Bahamas: history, 8–10; Cat Island, 10– 14; Nassau, 14–19; migrants to Miami from, 26–27; and Progressive Liberal Party, 75–76, 254–55; and Poitier’s Oscar, 219–20; Poitier takes Joanna Shimkus to, 325; Poitier moves back to, 325–27, 332, 351; Poitier appointed ambassador to Japan from, 376 Bailey, Pearl, 51, 151, 160–61 Baker, Josephine, 210 Baldwin, James, 37, 157, 166, 171, 190, 198, 210–11, 222–23, 234, 269, 288– 89, 296, 321, 344 Ball, John, 263 Balsam, Martin, 116, 236 Bancroft, Anne, 216–17, 237–38 Band of Angels, 135–39, 154, 157 Banky, Vilma, 147 Baraka, Amiri (Leroi Jones), 222, 289– 90, 344, 347–48 Barrett, William, 206 Bartlett, Hall, 180–81, 184 Baskette, James, 65, 156 Bassett, Angela, 378 Baum, Martin, 140, 159, 179, 216–17, 293, 379; represents Poitier, 112, 114– 15, 149–51, 244, 258, 315; produces The Wilby Conspiracy, 349–50 Bayldon, Geoffrey, 260 Beatty, Robert, 127 Beavers, Louise, 22, 95 Bechet, Sidney, 190 The Bedford Incident, 235–37, 243, 247, 270, 275 Belafonte, Harry, 49–50, 149, 151, 333; friendship with Poitier, 50, 58, 201, 223–25, 235, 291, 324, 337–39, 352, 372–73, 375; political activity, 88–90, 100, 194–97, 209–11, 221, 223–25, 233, 251, 255, 271, 321; public image, 468 index 133–34, 179, 348, 365; and Hollywood , 139–41, 180, 184, 206, 326; The Strollin’ Twenties, 244–45; Buck and the Preacher, 337–41; Uptown Saturday Night, 345–46 Belafonte, Julie, 133, 201, 291, 339, 352 Benjamin, Paul, 326 Bennett, Tony, 195 Benny, Jack, 151 Berenger, Tom, 363–64 Berman, Pandro, 100–101, 123, 140, 239–40, 242–43. See also Blackboard Jungle; A Patch of Blue; Something of Value Bernard, Viola, 201–2 Bernstein, Leonard, 194, 222, 334 Bernstein, Walter, 191 Berry, Chuck, 105 The Best Years of Our Lives, 146–47 Beulah, 95 Beverly Hills Cop, 364 Bibb, Leon, 58, 89 Bieri, Roman, 330 Biko, Steve, 350 Binford, Lloyd, 108–9 Birmingham civil rights campaign, 208–9, 232, 268 Birth of a Nation, 21, 69, 135, 269, 380 Black Academy of Arts and Letters, 333 Black Artists Alliance, 344 Blackbeard (Edward Teach), 8 Blackboard Jungle, 100–111, 120, 166, 177, 260, 372, 374 Blacklist in entertainment industry, 64– 65, 78, 84–90, 92, 95, 97–98, 102, 115–16, 152–53, 156 Black Power, 250, 252, 257, 282–83, 321, 323 Blackwell, Charles, 354, 371 Blaxploitation movies, 331–32, 337, 341, 343–44, 347 Blues for Mister Charlie, 198, 234 Bogart, Humphrey, 35, 331 Bogdanovich, Peter, 372 Bond, Julian, 333, 380 Bonney, Anne, 8 Bonnie and Clyde, 317 Boorstin, Daniel, 176 Bradford, Richard, 364 Braithwaite, E. R., 258 Brando, Marlon, 2, 103, 119, 152, 190, 195, 210–11, 215, 224, 233, 291, 321, 366 The Brave One, 156 Breen, Robert, 148, 165 Brennan, William, 113 Bridges, Beau, 316–17 Bright Road, 133 Briskin, Sam, 184–85 Broadway, blacks and, 35, 51, 54–55, 57– 58, 86, 168–69, 173–74. See also American Negro Theatre; Committee for the Negro in the Arts Brokenshire, Norman, 44 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 111 Brooks, Richard, 101–2, 105, 123, 125– 26, 128...