Search results
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Jan 3, 2014 · Moore, who danced in chorus lines at swanky clubs in New York and Paris before throwing herself into her film career, died Wednesday after collapsing in her Los Angeles home. She was 99,...
Jan 2, 2014 · "Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner's black friend in the classic weeper Imitation of Life, has died," The Associated Press...
