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At age 16, Sidney Poitier arrived in New York City from the Bahamas, barely able to read past third grade. Working as a dishwasher, he auditioned for the American Negro Theatre and was physically thrown out by director Frederick O'Neal, who told him to "stop wasting people's time." Poitier spent six months improving his reading, returned, and ...
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