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Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) 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.
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Dec 27, 2022 · Juanita Moore is finally set to get her own star on the walk of fame over a decade after her death in 2010. https://abc7ny.com/juanita-moore-documentary-a-st...
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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...
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Juanita Moore was an African American actress who starred in films such as Imitation of Life (1959) and The Kid (2000). She was nominated for an Oscar and appeared in over 50 movies before retiring in 2001.
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- October 19, 1914
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 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...
