Sidney Poitier (Black Americans of Achievement)
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Published: October 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780791002094
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Black studies; Films, cinema; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12); Biography; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; United States; USA; General; African Americans; Actors; Actors and actresses; Juvenile literature; Poitier, Sidney
First sentence: ON THE NIGHT of April 14, 1964, a tense Sidney Poitier sat in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, waiting for the American motion picture industry's announcement of the winner of that year's Academy Award for Best Actor.