Sidney Poitier
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Sep 25, 2026
Margaret RutherfordHOST
They were both huge stars at the time.
Margaret RutherfordHOST
They made several movies together, but perhaps my favorite was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, where Sidney Poitier gave the audience a sterling performance as a black man who wanted to marry the white daughter of Hepburn and Spencer.
Margaret RutherfordHOST
Roy Glenn and Bea Richards were outstanding as Poitier's parents.
Margaret RutherfordHOST
The movie at the time was shocking to many, some people either welcoming this cultural change and others greatly fearing it.
Jim O'KaneGUEST
It's almost like it's a job, here I am.
Jim O'KaneGUEST
And it gets like movies like The Defiant Ones, where they're escaping from a chain gang and Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, you're rooting for them.
Jim O'KaneGUEST
It's like, wait a minute, how did they get into jail? How did they wind up there? Tim Robbins' character in this is basically that thing.
Jim O'KaneGUEST
I'm innocent, but I was thrown into jail and I didn't have good representation.
George FeltensteinGUEST
Yeah, let us know that I made a mistake here, but I believe that Peter Ford takes the position that he influenced his dad to get that music in the movie.
George FeltensteinGUEST
So the cast in the film, they're all terrific, but probably the most impactful change in terms of introducing new talent to the filmmaking process was the casting of Sidney Poitier's very young Sidney Poitier as one of the students.
George FeltensteinGUEST
Five years before, he was in a pretty important supporting role in a Fox film, No Way Out.
George FeltensteinGUEST
But I think this is the film that really made people stand up and take notice of him.
George FeltensteinGUEST
A film I hope someday we can release on Blu-ray, Up the Down Staircase with Sandy Dennis, 1967 film.
George FeltensteinGUEST
That was taking it into yet, you know, like what was going on in the late 60s.
George FeltensteinGUEST
Sidney Poitier himself did a very important film that was set in London to serve with love that dealt with, you know, that juvenile... delinquency issue and the education issue in england and then there are even films that we've released like stand and deliver and lean on me which you know deal with the late 80s and what dedicated educators the difference they can make in teenagers lives uh it's certainly seen a progression in how it's how the classroom is dealt with But this is a very important film, and I'm very grateful we're releasing it on Blu-ray, looking so great.
Tim MallardHOST
And you already mentioned the commentary, which sounds terrific, but you also have a Droopy cartoon?
Leonard SaxGUEST
How should they know? They have received no instruction.
Leonard SaxGUEST
They haven't grown up in an era where the movies had stars like Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman and Gary Cooper.
Leonard SaxGUEST
They've grown up in the era of Drake.
Leonard SaxGUEST
Drake is the most popular musical artist in the United States.
Russell WilliamsGUEST
So from 70 to 74 and then the radio show continued into the 80s.
Russell WilliamsGUEST
79, I moved to L.A. What got me into the film side of things was first as a teenager, seeing this film that Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger were in called In the Heat of the Night.
Russell WilliamsGUEST
And so not only were they so impressive on camera, but by that time I was listening to a lot of jazz.
Russell WilliamsGUEST
And I said, wait a minute.
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Russell WilliamsGUEST
So I said, OK, I guess I can stay another 10 years.
Jason FraleyHOST
That's awesome.
Jason FraleyHOST
And you mentioned Sidney Poitier earlier.
Jason FraleyHOST
But when if someone asks sort of the trivia fact, you know, who's the first African-American to win multiple to donate to this museum? You'd be you know, most folks on the street might say, oh, was it Sidney? Was it Denzel, Spike or Quincy Jones? But it's you, sir.
TJ DaweHOST
And she is married to Flan, played by Donald Sutherland, who is an art dealer.
TJ DaweHOST
They get a surprise visit from Paul, played by Will Smith, who is a friend of their children at Harvard, and the son of Sidney Poitier.
TJ DaweHOST
And he charms them, he makes them dinner, and in the morning they find him in bed with a male sex worker.
TJ DaweHOST
And they soon discover that Paul did the same thing with a number of their friends.
TJ DaweHOST
And then they discover that Sidney Poitier does not have a son.
TJ DaweHOST
Their kids track down an old classmate and then they get the story, which is this old classmate who's now an MIT student picked up Paul on the street in Boston.
TJ DaweHOST
He was just a random dude.
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Mario SikoraHOST
Right.
Eric KiskaHOST
I will go with what I have right around there.
Eric KiskaHOST
At number 13, I will pick In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier.
Eric KiskaHOST
I really wanted this film to get on the list, and as we're kind of cutting this down here to the end, I kind of see it maybe not getting on the list.
Eric KiskaHOST
It is...
Eric KiskaHOST
It's directed by Norman Jewison, one of the best directors of all time, inspired a whole TV show.
Eric KiskaHOST
It has one of the best soundtracks of all time with Quincy Jones.
Eric KiskaHOST
And so what I was confused about, I thought Sidney Poitier won the best actor for this film, but it was Rod Steiger that won best actor for this film.
Eric KiskaHOST
And Sidney Poitier actually won it before in 64.
Vincent WilliamsHOST
She's in Hammer with Jim Brown.
Vincent WilliamsHOST
And then Jim Brown is in The Split with Diane Carroll, who is in Paris Blues with Sidney Poitier, who is, of course, in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Daryl Mark.
Vincent WilliamsHOST
So I just went
Len WebbHOST
backwards.
Brandon DavisHOST
So what is your number three movie?
Maureen LenkerGUEST
Well, my number three is another Southern set film, and it is In the Heat of the Night with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
Maureen LenkerGUEST
And it's I mean, it's got heat in the title, and it delivers on its promise.
Maureen LenkerGUEST
I mean, Sidney Poitier's detective, Virgil Tibbs, ends up stranded in this southern town, and it is miserably hot.
Maureen LenkerGUEST
I mean, he's constantly dabbing a handkerchief to his head.
Maureen LenkerGUEST
It looks so hot in Rod Steiger's office.
Brandon DavisHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
Brandon DavisHOST
Absolutely.
Jeremy GreshinGUEST
So Lulu was, had the top selling US single, uh, chart song in the United States in 1967.
Jeremy GreshinGUEST
It was, uh, To Sir With Love, which became a movie with Sidney Poitier.
Jeremy GreshinGUEST
And then she also sang the title song for The Man With The Golden Gun.
Jeremy GreshinGUEST
So Lulu was kind of a-
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