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A Raisin in the Sun was released by Columbia Pictures on May 29, 1961. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked the film 65th in its list of most inspiring ...
A Raisin in the Sun, American film drama, released in 1961, that was based on Lorraine Hansberry ’s acclaimed play of the same name about the urban African American experience. A Raisin in the Sun(From left) Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands in A Raisin in the Sun (1961). A Raisin in the Sun follows a poor Black family ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
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
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 apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams ...
- Walter Lee Younger
Rent A Raisin in the Sun on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. ... Release Date (Theaters) Mar 29, 1961, Limited. Release Date ...
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- Sidney Poitier
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Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall. Daniel Petrie. Director. Lorraine Hansberry. Screenplay. Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life.
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Cast. Sidney Poitier Claudia McNeil Ruby Dee Diana Sands Ivan Dixon John Fiedler Louis Gossett Jr. Stephen Perry Joel Fluellen Louis Terrel Roy Glenn George DeNormand Bob Sweeney Thomas D. Jones Rudolph Monroe Ray Stubbs David Susskind. 128 mins More at IMDb TMDb.
