Thread by @dean_frey

#RIP Sidney Poitier
Star Power: with Louis Armstrong & Paul Newman on the set of Paris Blues, 1961

#RIP Sidney Poitier
With Sammy Davis Jr. & Harry Belafonte in a great shot by Philippe Halsman, 1966
Stay well, Harry!

#RIP Sidney Poitier
With his #Oscar for Lilies of the Field
📷 Gene Lester, 1964

Coffee & conversation on "Open End", c. 1960 ☕️
Sidney Poitier, Tony Franciosa, David Susskind, Harry Belafonte & Shelley Winters
TV was a bit more intelligent in those days, I think

Elizabeth Hartman & Sidney Poitier, A Patch of Blue, 1965. MGM cut 8 seconds from prints in the South: Hollywood's first interracial kiss.
📷 Tony Bell

Phil Stern
Sidney Poitier, Susan Strasberg, Stanley Kramer & George Stevens Jr., Moscow, 1967
They're en route to the 1967 Moscow International Film Festival. A fabulous photograph!
#RIP

Chris Ware
Sidney Poitier & Judy Geeson on the set of To Sir With Love, 1967
#RIP 💔
Ladies Choice

#RIP Sidney Poitier
With Ron Hernandez, 1951
📷 Robert Douglas
@laplphotos

#RIP Sidney Poitier
📷 Brian Duffy, London, 1965

#RIP Sidney Poitier
📷 Gjon Mili, 1960s

Sidney Poitier at home with his first wife, Juanita Hardy
📷 Gordon Parks, 1959
#RIP
I'd love to know who did that painting.

Another fabulous Gordon Parks photo:
Sidney Poitier with Ivan Dixon & Ruby Dee in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun, 1959
#RIP

Gjon Mili's photo of Sidney Poitier as Porgy in Otto Preminger's Porgy & Bess, 1959.
#RIP

Gordon Parks took some great photos of a party at Sardi's after A Raisin in the Sun, 1959. Harry Belafonte up front, talking with Lorraine Hansberry, I believe. That's Sidney Poitier's distinctive profile at the back.
He looked good from any angle. #RIP

Being an effective activist involves a lot of work. A 1971 letter from Arthur Ashe to Sidney Poitier shows some of what goes on behind the scenes.
#RIP

Diana Sands, Ruby Dee & Sidney Poitier in the original 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun.
📷 Friedman-Abeles
@NYPL digital collection
#RIP

Austin Hansen
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a group of Harlem ministers in preparation for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom to Washington DC, 1957. That's Sidney Poitier up front. #RIP
@NYPL digital collection

One of the great things that happens on Twitter when a great person dies is that we get to see some awesome photos. #RIP
Like this one of Sidney Poitier, from 1959, which has showed up a lot. Almost never with a photographer credit, though. It's by @NYTimes photographer Sam Falk.

More about Sam Falk's Sidney Poitier photographs at this Amisha Padnani article here:
nytimes.com/2019/02/20/mov…
A contact sheet from his 1959 photoshoot.