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Best Written American Drama | 1962 | Lorraine
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1962 | Daniel
Budget 1,500,000 USD
There was a tense and antagonistic relationship between Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil during the making of this film. The tension between the actor and actress had first developed when they played these parts in the play on Broadway. McNeil felt that film should adopt her character's point-of-view, a stance supported by the Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, while Poitier believed his character's struggles should be the focal point of the film. The actor and actress' distaste for one another never quite diminished, and Poitier wrote many years later that he believed that McNeil hated him.
The play was originally brought to Sidney Poitier's attention by an old friend, Philip Rose, who would also produce the movie. The play was inspired by playwright Lorraine Hansberry's family's purchase of a house in an all-white Chicago neighborhood. (The community's reaction resulted in Hansberry vs. Lee, one of the most important housing cases to ever reach the Supreme Court.) Poitier was overwhelmed by the power of the material and was happy to play in it. It's been said that "A Raisin In The Sun" would never have been done if Poitier had not agreed to appear in it.
Louis Gossett, Jr.'s film debut.
The title comes from the Langston Hughes poem, "Harlem (What Happens To A Dream Deferred?)".
Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee played husband and wife in this movie, Edge of the City (1957) and Buck and the Preacher (1972).
"Lena Younger: [sobbing] Oh God, please, look down and give me strength!"
"Walter Lee Younger: A man say to his woman, "I got me a dream." She says, "Eat your eggs, they're getting cold.""
