Porgy and Bess

And this time, the audience gets up and hoots and hollers and says, get back on the train, you fool! So by the early 60s, Poitier is certainly emerging as a significant movie star.

He has appeared in Defiant Ones, Porgy and Bess.

He was on Raisin in the Sun, which had a long Broadway run and then was a successful film as well, in which he had this incredible performance as Walter Lee Younger.

He really defined the role in terms of, here's a young black man who's coming into his own and learning how to provide for his family and to show his dignity, even as he's facing an intensely racist society.