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- Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee Director: Daniel Petrie Writer: Lorraine Hansberry
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A Raisin in the Sun: Directed by Daniel Petrie. With Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands. A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
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- Daniel Petrie
- 1961-05-18
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A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.
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A Raisin in the Sun. film by Petrie [1961] Written by. Lee Pfeiffer. Author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema and is regarded as one of the foremost James Bond scholars. His book The Essential Bond: An Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (written with... Lee Pfeiffer.
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Aug 7, 2024 · Hansberry writes two screenplays of A Raisin in the Sun, both of which are rejected by Columbia Pictures; her third, least controversial screenplay is accepted. Students hold “sit-ins” in Greensboro, N.C. 1961. Movie version of A Raisin in the Sun premieres in Chicago. The film wins a special Cannes Film Festival Award. 1962
Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie. The original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago ...
Produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose, Hansberry would write three versions of the screenplay that expanded on her vision and concerns but the first two were deemed too controversial and the final film instead closely follows the 1959 stage play, which had also been edited.
