A Raisin in the Sun
movie
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
Released May 28, 1961
Overview
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Cast
Sidney Poitier
as
Walter Lee Younger
Claudia McNeil
as
Lena Younger
Ruby Dee
as
Ruth Younger
Diana Sands
as
Beneatha Younger
Ivan Dixon
as
Asagai
John Fiedler
as
Mark Lindner
Louis Gossett Jr.
as
George Murchison
Steven Perry
as
Travis Younger
Joel Fluellen
as
Bobo
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Louis Terrel
as
Herman
Roy Glenn
as
Willie Harris
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George DeNormand
as
Employer (uncredited)
Crew
Daniel Petrie
as
Director
Lorraine Hansberry
as
Screenplay
Lorraine Hansberry
as
Theatre Play
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Ronald H. Gilbert
as
Producer
David Susskind
as
Producer
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Laurence Rosenthal
as
Original Music Composer
Charles Lawton Jr.
as
Director of Photography
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William A. Lyon
as
Editor
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Paul Weatherwax
as
Editor
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Carl Anderson
as
Art Direction
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Louis Diage
as
Set Decoration
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Helen Hunt
as
Hairstylist