Did You Know...

... actor Ruby Dee's marriage to actor Ossie Davis was one of the longest in Hollywood history. They married in 1948 and remained that way until Davis' death in 2005 (that's 57 years together).

You Say It's Your Birthday!

Happy 84th Birthday, Sidney Poitier!!!!!

receiving the Medal of Freedom Award

from President Obama, 2009

with Tony Curtis on the set of "The Defiant Ones", 1958

with Dorothy Dandridge on the set of "Porgy & Bess", 1959

with Ruby Dee and Stephen Perry on

the set of "A Raisin in the Sun", 1961

with Anne Bancroft after winning Best Actor, 1964

on the set of "To Sir with Love" with Judy Geeson, 1967

with Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Houghton

on the set of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", 1967

on the set of "In the Heat of Night" with Rod Steiger, 1967

with Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Barbra Streisand at a

meeting for their production company, First Artists Company , 1972

winning an Honorary Lifetime

Achievement Academy Award, 2002