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Oscar Awards Announced; Poitier Named Best Actor...
...airports. They march in the pro and anti-treaty lines before the White House. Finally, there are Negroes at the President's press conference as the film closes. These are simply kowtows to the New Republic set; if the producer had real guts he could have cast Sydney Poitier in Kirk Douglas' role. But then Producer Edward Lewis would have been troubled by the script's implication that Douglas will some day sleep with Ava Gardner, who plays Lancaster's former mistress. Miscegenation might have confused the good guys and the bad guys, particularly for southern audiences. Anything that controversial...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Something of Value, the screen version of Robert Ruark's Mau Mau novel, with Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter and Wendy Hiller...
...Rican role. Such occasional successes only heighten the general sense of frustration that Negro actors share. Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis in summer stock can be accounted for by their great box office appeal. But for the journeyman Negro actor-and even for such established Negro stars as Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Diahann Carroll-there is a disconcerting scarcity of parts. "It's very discouraging," says Miss Dandridge. "Sometimes they'll hire actresses and shade them with makeup until they're down to the color I am to play a role I could play as well...
UNIVERSITY: Today and tomorrow are, fortunately, the last days for Peter Ustinov's tedious tour-de-farce, Romanoff and Juliet, based on you know what. (Second feature is that first-rate horror movie, Scream of Fear.) Things look up almost immediately, however, with Sidney Poitier in A Rasin in the Sun. Poitier brings to the movie version of this prize-winning play the same vitality and sense of timing he showed on Broadway. With it is Solid Gold Cadillac, which is Judy Holliday at her incomparable best...