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A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America.
A Patch of Blue: Directed by Guy Green. With Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford. A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
Elizabeth Kata’s novel A Patch of Blue (originally titled Be Ready with Bells and Drums) (1961) was adapted into a film version in 1965, which was nominated for several Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters’s performance as the main character.
Selina D'Arcey, an 18-year-old girl accidentally blinded by her mother, Rose-Ann, in a family quarrel 13 years ago, lives in a shabby tenement with her prostitute mother and alcoholic grandfather, Ole Pa.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters and Elizabeth HartmanA Patch of Blue (1965) Official Trailer - Sidney Poitier MovieA blind, uneducated white girl i...
A Patch of Blue (1965)Directed by Guy Green"Blind Rage"Elizabeth Hartman.
A Patch of Blue is story about a blind girl in the 60's, who lives with her prostitute mother and alcoholic grandfather. She meets a black man in the park and falls in love with him. She is racist, due to the times and what she has been taught by her mother and grandfather.
When Selina D'Arcey (Elizabeth Hartman), a blind young white woman, befriends Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier), a black office worker, their budding relationship...
Patch of Blue (1965) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #PatchofBlueSidney Poitier cemented his ascent to the Tinseltown firmament with this Guy Green (Light in the ...
Eighteen-year-old Caucasian Selina D'Arcey lives with her part-time prostitute mother, Rose-Ann D'Arcey in the one-room tenement apartment of Selina's drunkard grandfather, whom she calls Ole Pa. Selina has been blind since age 5, the result of an accident Rose-Ann caused.