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Juanita Moore (October 19, 1915 – December 31, 2013) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She was the fifth black actor to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category at a time when only one black actor, Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind (1939), had won an Oscar.
Juanita Moore. Actress: Imitation of Life. African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films.
Jan 3, 2014 · Juanita Moore, who earned an Academy Award nomination in 1960 for the single major film role she ever landed, then fell through the cracks of a Hollywood system that had little to offer a black...
Jan 2, 2014 · Juanita Moore, the veteran African-American actress who was nominated for an Oscar for 1959's Imitation of Life, has died aged 99. Moore, a former chorus girl at...
Juanita Moore. Actress: Imitation of Life. African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films.
Jan 1, 2014 · NEW YORK (AP) — Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner’s black friend in the classic film “Imitation of Life,” has died. Actor Kirk Kelleykahn, her grandson, said that Moore collapsed and died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles.
Nov 7, 2022 · Juanita Moore: the Oscar nominee who fought stereotypes and racism. The Imitation of Life star was pigeonholed and undervalued by Hollywood but years later, she is finally receiving the ...
Jan 3, 2014 · Moore, who danced in chorus lines at swanky clubs in New York and Paris before throwing herself into her film career, died Wednesday after collapsing in her Los Angeles home. She was 99,...
Jan 2, 2014 · Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner's black friend in the classic weeper "Imitation of Life," has died.
Jan 2, 2014 · Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner's black friend in the classic weeper "Imitation of Life," has died.
