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A Raisin in the Sun

7.7 128 mins Drama   Romance   1961
Columbia Pictures  
Director(s): Daniel Petrie

Release Date: 28 Sun, May 1961

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.

Casts of A Raisin in the Sun

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

Louis Terrel

as Herman

Roy Glenn

as Willie Harris

George DeNormand

as Employer (uncredited)

Bob Sweeney

as Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)

Thomas D. Jones

as Chauffeur (uncredited)

Rudolph Monroe

as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Ray Stubbs

as Bartender (uncredited)

David Susskind

as On-screen Trailer Narrator (uncredited)

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