Before her long life ended at the age of 99, Juanita Moore paved the way for other Black performers in Hollywood, but as a new documentary makes clear, Moore never got the recognition she so richly deserved.
She earned an Oscar for 1959's "Imitation of Life" for playing a Black housekeeper whose daughter passes for white."Her legacy was she persevered," her grandson, Kirk Kelleykahn said. "She kept going. She never stopped."
He calls the movie he made about her "A Star Without A Star," because the folks in charge refused to give her a posthumous star until his documentary pressured them to include his grandmother. "I'm glad that she will be getting one, and I'm glad that we did persevere with the film," Kelleykahn said. "But I think it should've been much sooner.""These were different times," the late Sidney Poitier says in the new documentary. "You had to behave in a certain stereotypical way in order to find a job, to get a job, and hold a job so it was slow going.
Moore went back to playing domestic roles, but still managed to break through in parts like the nun she played in "The Singing Nun." A younger performer, T'keyah Crystal Keymah appears in the documentary calling Moore, "one of the people that not only look like me, but made me proud to look like me." "The film is playing for a brief run at
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