My bride and I watched Lillies of the Field (1963) on Friday evening. It had been decades since I last watched it, and I had forgotten just how funny and moving it was. Sidney Poitier richly deserved his best actor Oscar for his performance. Lilia Skala as the Mother Superior of the East German nuns, refugees from the Iron Curtain, gives a mesmerizing portrayal of a woman who is capable of accomplishing the seemingly impossible because of her indomitable faith. A film worth seeing many times.
We just re-watched that movie also. Sidney Poitier was brilliant. I believe he is still alive and in his 90’s.
Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte are still alive (and still lucid, AFAIK). Life expectancy at birth has gone up by about 10 years since 1960, so the number of people in the tail of the distribution has increased enormously. We only just lost Olivia de Havilland and Kirk Douglas.