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This is what black actors did at the time, so audiences did not like him. Poitier was tone deaf, and could not sing or dance. Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston at the March on Washington, 1963 He worked as a dishwasher until he got a job with the American Negro Theater. He decided to join the United States Army. During this time, he was arrested for vagrancy (being homeless) after having to leave his home for not paying rent. At 17, he moved to New York City and got several menial jobs. When he was 15, Poitier's parents sent him off Miami to live with his older brother.
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Since he was born in Miami, Poitier automatically gained U.S. Poitier's birth was premature and people did not expect him to survive, but his parents stayed three months in Miami until he became well.
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His mother was called Evelyn and his father was called Reginald James Poitier. He grew up with his family on remote Cat Island, in the Bahamas. He took on directing and producing chores in the 1970s, achieving success in both arenas.Poitier was born in Miami, Florida. Poitier's talent, conscience, integrity, and inherent likability placed him on equal footing with the white stars of the day. His roles in Вгадай, хто завітає на вечерю (1967) and To Sir, with Love (1967) were landmarks in helping to break down some social barriers between blacks and whites. He remained active on stage and screen as well as in the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. Five years later, he won the Oscar for Польові лілеї (1963), the first African American to win for a leading role. One of these films, Скуті одним ланцюгом (1958), earned Poitier his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. But seven years later, after turning down several projects he considered demeaning, Poitier got a number of roles that catapulted him into a category rarely if ever achieved by an African-American man of that time, that of leading man. Nevertheless, the roles were still less interesting and prominent than those white actors routinely obtained. His performance as a doctor treating a white bigot got him plenty of notice and led to more roles. By the end of 1949, he was having to choose between leading roles on stage and an offer to work for Darryl F. Spotted in rehearsal by a casting agent, he won a bit part in the Broadway production of "Lysistrata", for which he earned good reviews. An impulsive audition at the American Negro Theatre was rejected so forcefully that Poitier dedicated the next six months to overcoming his accent and improving his performing skills.
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A brief stint in the Army as a worker at a veterans' hospital was followed by more menial jobs in Harlem. In the U.S., he experienced the racial chasm that divides the country, a great shock to a boy coming from a society with a majority of African descent.Īt 18, he went to New York, did menial jobs and slept in a bus terminal toilet. Sidney had little formal education and at the age of 15 was sent to Miami to live with his brother, in order to forestall a growing tendency toward delinquency. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier.