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Morning Man Classic: Sidney Poitier!
The TCM Classic Film Festival is one of my favorite events of the year and this year I watched Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner for the first time in many years.
Hepburn and Tracy were the best but I could not take my eyes off of Sidney Poitier who was just so sexy and appealing.
At the time of that classic 1968 film, Poitier was at the peak of his film career having won the Academy Award five years earlier for Lilies of the Field and starred in such memorable films as In the Heat of the Night, To Sir With Love, The Defiant Ones, A Raisin in the Sun, Porgy and Bess, and A Patch of Blue.
In 2001, Poitier received an Honorary Academy Award for his overall contribution to American cinema. With the death of Ernest Borgnine in 2012, Poitier became the oldest living man to have won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Richard V says:
I remember and fall in love with Sidney Poitier seeing this movie. First time I was treated like an adult… talked about the movie, picked dinner… I was 10 years old. Thanks Mom. My next favorite is To Sir with Love… I loved the music too in this movie.