Trivia / A Raisin in the Sun

• Playing Against Type: The insidious nature of racism was shown by hiring John Fiedler, otherwise known for playing timid Nice Guy characters, to play the original Lindner, which he reprised in the film. John Stamos gets this too in the 2008 film, for those who knew and loved him as Uncle Jesse.
• Those Two Actors: Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee had previously played a couple in the Harlem Globetrotters movie Go Man Go.

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