Gone Are the Days

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Gone Are the Days

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Ossie Davis
…adapted for the screen as Gone Are the Days! (1963), which also starred the couple, and as the Broadway musical Purlie (1970). On screen, Davis played a priest who is attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal (1963) and a Jamaican soldier in Sidney Lumet’s The…
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…adapted for the screen as Gone Are the Days! (1963), which also starred the couple, and as the Broadway musical Purlie (1970). On screen, Davis played a priest who is attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal (1963) and a Jamaican soldier in Sidney Lumet’s The…
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Ruby Dee
…version of the latter (Gone Are the Days!, 1963). The couple acted in several movies by director Spike Lee, including Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991). Among their television credits are Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum (1986), and…
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…version of the latter (Gone Are the Days!, 1963). The couple acted in several movies by director Spike Lee, including Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991). Among their television credits are Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum (1986), and…
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