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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Sidney Poitier ws the first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Liliees of the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess ho's Coming to Dinner, and To Sir With Love. Among many other accolades, Poitier has been awarded the Screen Actor Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, for an outtanding career and humanitarian accomplishment.
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English
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In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney Poitier explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure - as a man, as a husband, and father, and as an actor. Poitier...
3) This Life
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English
Description
Autobiography of actor Sidney Poitier, poor teenager from the Bahamas who became the first black actor to break through the stereotyping and racism of Hollywood and emerge as a great star and Oscar winner.
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