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A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed and written by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America.
Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress of stage and screen. She debuted in the popular 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades.She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), the latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a ...
A Patch of Blue; Ship of Fools; The Sound of Music. Cat Ballou; The Great Race; Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; A Thousand Clowns; Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama Actor Actress; Omar Sharif - Doctor Zhivago. Rex Harrison - The Agony and the Ecstasy; Sidney Poitier - A Patch of Blue; Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker ...
Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in "Lilies of the Field," and inspired a generation during the civil rights ...
Image credits: Kevin Mazur / Getty #3 Julia Fox. Julia Fox donned an all-black outfit on the red carpet, dressed in a sheer black mini-dress on top of a matching thong and bra.
The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.They were hosted by Bob Hope, and were the first Oscars to be broadcast live in color. [1]
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