SYDNEY POITIER IN PORGY AND BESS

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AUTUMN 1959

SIGHT AND SOUND SAYS: Actor, director and diplomat Sidney Poitier was the cover star for this 1959 issue. Here, we see him in a striking still from Otto Preminger’s Porgy and Bess, in which Poitier starred opposite Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. In her 2022 obituary of Poitier, Leila Letif said that he "forever shifted Black representation on screen, opening doors for countless people that came after him, and changing the perception of what African-American men were and could be."

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AUTUMN 1959

SIGHT AND SOUND SAYS: Actor, director and diplomat Sidney Poitier was the cover star for this 1959 issue. Here, we see him in a striking still from Otto Preminger’s Porgy and Bess, in which Poitier starred opposite Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. In her 2022 obituary of Poitier, Leila Letif said that he "forever shifted Black representation on screen, opening doors for countless people that came after him, and changing the perception of what African-American men were and could be."

AUTUMN 1959

SIGHT AND SOUND SAYS: Actor, director and diplomat Sidney Poitier was the cover star for this 1959 issue. Here, we see him in a striking still from Otto Preminger’s Porgy and Bess, in which Poitier starred opposite Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr. In her 2022 obituary of Poitier, Leila Letif said that he "forever shifted Black representation on screen, opening doors for countless people that came after him, and changing the perception of what African-American men were and could be."