Tag: Cicely Tyson

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Sounder’: Hope Amid Despair

February 13, 2023
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G | 1 h 45 min | Drama, Comedy | 1972 Set in Depression-hit Louisiana, director Martin Ritt’s film is about an impoverished black family, the Morgans: Nathan (Paul Winfield); Rebecca (Cicely Tyson); their eldest son who goes to school, David (Kevin Hooks in his debut); their younger children, Earl and Josie, and their beloved…

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Cicely Tyson, Groundbreaking Award-Winning Actor, Dies at Age 96

January 28, 2021
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NEW YORK—Cicely Tyson, the pioneering actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96. Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager…

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Award-Winning Actress Cicely Tyson Dies at Age 96

January 28, 2021
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NEW YORK—Cicely Tyson, the pioneering actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96. Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager…

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