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    Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Dee was married...
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    was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death. He received numerous...
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  • with co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr. Development for the film initially began...
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    American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his...
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  • written and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and Samuel...
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  • William Corrington. The film stars James Garner, Judith Ivey, Bill Cobbs, Ruby Dee, and Laurence Fishburne. It follows Albert Sidney Finch, a retired Georgia...
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  • Spike Lee. Starring Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Tim Robbins...
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  • Lloyd Richards, the cast comprised: Sidney Poitier – Walter Lee Younger Ruby Dee – Ruth Younger Ivan Dixon – Joseph Asagai Lonne Elder III – Bobo John Fiedler...
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  • held featuring Kerry Washington as Lutiebell, Whoopi Goldberg as Missy, Ruby Dee as Idella and Harold Perrineau as Purlie. The play was revived on Broadway...
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  • the arrival of Ruby Dee in New Zealand, the film was put on hold after the news that her husband Ossie Davis had died in the U.S. Dee flew back to attend...
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  • directed by Kyle Schickner, produced by FenceSitter Films, and starring Ruby Dee, Ally Sheedy and Kate Siegel. A college student, a single middle aged mother...
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  • Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee. This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed. Vincent Canby of The New...
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    century Ruby Dandridge (1900–1987), American actress Ruby Dee (1924–2014), American actress Ruby Dhalla (born 1974), Canadian politician Ruby Franke (born...
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  • Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee. The film has the distinction of being the first full-length feature to...
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  • City Subway car, played by an ensemble cast that includes Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Jack Gilford, Ed McMahon, Gary Merrill, Donna Mills, Brock Peters, Thelma...
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    Poitier acted in the first production of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Ruby Dee on the Broadway stage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959. The play...
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  • semi-autobiographical. The film marked the final appearance of actress and activist Ruby Dee before her death in 2014. The film is set in Philadelphia 1982. Tim Brown...
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  • Look up dee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dee or DEE may refer to: Dee, an alternate spelling of the Welsh surname Day Dee, a romanization of several...
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    into Tommy's neighborhood and becomes friends with Tommy's wife Lucy (Ruby Dee) and develops a romantic relationship with her friend Ellen Wilson (Kathleen...
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  • Franklin Mallika Sherawat as Aretha Gupta Loretta Devine as Shirlee Gupta Ruby Dee as Grandma 'Estelle' Roseanne Gupta Gerry Bednob as Vijay Gupta Gabrielle...
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  • Baldwin's 1953 novel of the same name. It stars Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, Ruby Dee, Alfre Woodard, Douglas Turner Ward, CCH Pounder, Kadeem Hardison, Giancarlo...
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  • Timothy Hutton as Richard Loving Lela Rochon as Mildred 'Bean' Jeter Ruby Dee as Sophia Bill Nunn as Leonard Corey Parker as Bernie Cohen Isaiah Washington...
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  • Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge. It is based on the 1961 Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which was written by Davis. Davis, Dee, Cambridge...
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  • Film Festival on April 28, 2007. She also appeared in Steam alongside Ruby Dee and Chelsea Handler. In 2008, Siegel appeared in the short film Knocked...
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  • Montgomery made her directorial debut with the historical film Mitote, starring Ruby Dee and S. Epatha Merkerson. Lipton, Laura (December 8, 1990). "Barbara Montgomery...
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  • roles and features Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Adam Storke...
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  • and Dennis Lynton Clark. The film stars Andre Braugher, Daniel Stern, Ruby Dee, Stan Shaw, Paul Dooley and Bruce Dern. The film premiered on TNT on October...
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    and Jessica Tandy; Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Dancers The Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold were honored, along with...
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  • Ed Harris as Blair Sullivan Christopher Murray as Detective J.T. Wilcox Ruby Dee as Evangeline Ferguson Scarlett Johansson as Katie Armstrong Daniel J....
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    interview that she had never thought about casting Brown. On June 11, 2014, Ruby Dee died from natural causes. Bassett had previously worked with her on Betty...
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