These movies weren’t Poitier’s first box-office hits, nor were they his first brush with the highest of high-Hollywood elite.
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Yet, for sheer improbability and symbolic import, that history is overshadowed by an extraordinary single year in the career of Sidney Poitier - 1967 - which saw the actor star, with top billing, in three major, highly profitable Hollywood releases: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy To Sir, With Love and In the Heat of the Night, which won Best Picture the following year. Some of these artists even made a good deal of money.
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There had been Black directors and, because of segregation, Black movie houses there had been a long tradition of vaudeville, and international celebrities like Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker, and a thriving minstrel circuit, which overlapped with and vastly overdetermined the paths of many Black actors trying to make it as legitimate stage and screen actors.
And other Black image-makers had labored in other corners of the industry, working behind and in front of the camera some time before Poitier made his way to the United States from the Bahamas in 1942. Other Black actors had appeared in popular Hollywood movies, had even gone so far as to win an Academy Award for their work before Sidney Poitier made it big (just one person - Hattie McDaniel - and just one time, in 1939, but still). He was our first Black movie star, in a certain, classical sense of that term.
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