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...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier leads a superb cast in Lorraine Hansberry's fine first play about the hopes, fears and dreams of a South Side Chicago Negro family...
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness...
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness...
...Sidney Poitier is superb as Porgy! His performance is certain to win him another Academy Award nomination, and he may well walk away with it this time. Mr. Poitier has always been commended for his sensitivity; but in his Porgy we see a new dimension for it, for this is the first time, to my recollection, that he has been cast in a truly gentle role...
...steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script, but a well-scrubbed young romantic hero who is never seen taking a penny from anybody. And Dorothy Dandridge, who emphasizes the elegance of her bones more than the sins of the flesh, makes something...