Happy Birthday: Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Born: February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida, USA

Married to: Joanna Shimkus (23 January 1976 – present) (2 children)
Juanita Hardy (29 April 1950 – 1965) (divorced) (4 children)

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists … in the loved one, perfection.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

[re writer/director Richard Brooks ] He was both intense and very feeling, very human. He had a wonderful, wonderful sense of other people. He was not particularly enamored of himself. He was the kind off guy who had a sense of fairness, and he employed that sense in his life, and in his work, so that some people were surprised at him, some people deeply loved him, and some people were just put off by him.

[from Sidney Poitier’s speech about Widmark at the D. W. Griffith Award for Life Achievement] The generosity of spirit that lights his way will also warm your heart…

SUBMIT your TV PILOT Screenplay or TV SPEC Script Voted #1 TV Contest in North America.

SUBMIT your Short Screenplay or FEATURE Script FULL FEEDBACK on all entries. Get your script performed

FIRST SCENE (first 10pgs) Screenplay CONTEST Submit the first stages of your film and get full feedback!