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Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace; October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis , with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. [ 1 ] She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award , a Grammy Award , an Obie Award , and a Drama Desk Award , as well as a nomination for an ...
In 1989, Ossie Davis and his wife, actress/activist Ruby Dee, were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame. In 1995, they were awarded the National Medal of Arts , the nation's highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the country and presented in a White House ceremony by the President of the United States . [ 5 ]
Bilked out of big money while he was alive, the demanding ghost of a big-time gambler asks husband-and-wife false psychics to help exact revenge against a Las Vegas blackjack dealer and his wife, the ghost's ex-girlfriend.
Later in the decade, in 1966–1967, The Guiding Light was also the first show to regularly feature African American characters, Dr. Jim Frazier and his wife nurse Martha Frazier (played first by Billy Dee Williams and Cicely Tyson and then by James Earl Jones and Ruby Dee).
He also revealed that, though there is "still lots of recovery and rehab" in his future, he is back home and on the mend, and is now looking ahead to 2025. Scott Legato/Getty Mikkey Dee performs 2022
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep South.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
A Raisin in the Sun, from left, Louis Gossett Jr, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier.. A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.