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As Walter Lee Younger in the 1961 adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun, he was allowed more range and expression than many of his other roles of that era. Walter embodies defiance, resentment and ambition, the essence of Black American dreams deferred, and Poitier inhabits those anxieties so fully and deeply. The prickly conflicts Walter has with each of the main characters, especially his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee, a frequent Poitier onscreen romantic partner), showcase an actor who understands writer Lorraine Hansberry's rich character inside and out.
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His career took off with 1955’s hit Blackboard Jungle, in which he played the most redeemable and charismatic of the gang of slum toughs taught by Glenn Ford’s idealistic high-school teacher. (The ever youthful-looking Poitier was 28.) He won an Oscar nomination for best actor for 1958’s The Defiant Ones, a racial parable in which chain-gang escapees Poitier and Tony Curtis are shackled together and forced to rely on each other for survival, becoming the first African-American performer nominated for the Oscar’s top acting prize. He wouldn’t win it for a few more years; in the meantime, he originated the role of Walter Lee Younger in the 1959 Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark A Raisin in the Sun and went on to reprise the role on film.
As Walter Lee Younger in the 1961 adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun, he was allowed more range and expression than many of his other roles of that era. Walter embodies defiance, resentment and ambition, the essence of Black American dreams deferred, and Poitier inhabits those anxieties so fully and deeply. The prickly conflicts Walter has with each of the main characters, especially his wife Ruth (Ruby Dee, a frequent Poitier onscreen romantic partner), showcase an actor who understands writer Lorraine Hansberry's rich character inside and out.
