THE FACT ABOUT YOUNG ACTORS ON THE RISE THAT NO ONE IS SUGGESTING

At 18, he went to New York, did menial Employment and slept in the bus terminal rest room. A quick stint in the Army like a worker in a veterans' clinic was followed by far more menial Employment in Harlem. An impulsive audition on the American Negro Theatre was rejected so forcefully that Poitier focused the subsequent six months to overcoming his