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Juanita Moore (October 19, 1915 – December 31, 2013) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She was the fifth black actor to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category at a time when only one black actor, Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind (1939), had won an Oscar.
Juanita Moore. Actress: Imitation of Life. African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films.
Juanita Moore. Actress: Imitation of Life. African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films.
Jan 3, 2014 · Juanita Moore, who earned an Academy Award nomination in 1960 for the single major film role she ever landed, then fell through the cracks of a Hollywood system that had little to offer a black...
Jan 1, 2014 · NEW YORK (AP) — Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner’s black friend in the classic film “Imitation of Life,” has died. Actor Kirk Kelleykahn, her grandson, said that Moore collapsed and died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles.
Nov 7, 2022 · Interviewed on the TV at the age of 92, Juanita Moore may have been laughing but she was telling a painful truth about her career in Hollywood.
Jan 2, 2014 · Juanita Moore, the veteran African-American actress who was nominated for an Oscar for 1959's Imitation of Life, has died aged 99. Moore, a former chorus girl at Harlem's...
Jan 2, 2014 · Her role as Annie Johnson in the 1959 film Imitation of Life led to an Oscar nomination — just the fifth at that time for a black actor or actress. Moore was 99 when she died on...
Jan 3, 2014 · Juanita Moore, the third African-American actress to ever get a supporting actress Oscar nomination, died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home Tuesday, her grandson said. She was 99.
Jan 1, 2014 · Juanita Moore, who broke barriers for African-American actors and was Oscar-nommed for 1959’s “Imitation of Life,” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. Her step-grandson, actor Kirk...
