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Davis and Dee Marriage. In 1948, Davis married actress Ruby Dee, whom he had met on the set of Robert Ardrey's 1946 play Jeb. In their joint autobiography With Ossie and Ruby, they described their decision to have an open marriage, later changing their minds.
Apr 26, 2024 · Davis and Dee partnered on Broadway again in the acclaimed Purlie Victorious (1961), a play written by Davis and later adapted for the screen as Gone Are the Days! (1963), which also starred the couple, and as the Broadway musical Purlie (1970).
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She made her film debut in That Man of Mine (1946) before landing a leading roles in films such as The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Edge of the City (1957), Take a Giant Step (1959), and Buck and the Preacher (1972). She also acted in the Ossie Davis film Black Girl (1972), and the Spike Lee films Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991).
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Ossie Davis was born on 18 December 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Do the Right Thing (1989), Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). He was married to Ruby Dee.
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Oct 31, 2007 · Ruby Dee set the standard for African-American actors and for artists all over the world through her own work and in her on and off-screen partnership with the equally legendary Ossie...
Apr 30, 2024 · The couple acted in several movies by director Spike Lee, including Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991). Among their television credits are Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum (1986), and The Stand (1994).
Gone Are the Days!: Directed by Nicholas Webster. With Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Godfrey Cambridge, Hilda Haynes. An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude.
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