Farewell - Ruby Dee

[MdmeX]

NEW YORK — Her long career brought her an Oscar nomination at age 83 for best supporting actress for her role in the 2007 film American Gangster. She also won an Emmy and was nominated for several others. Age didn't slow her down.

"I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire,'" Dee told The Associated Press in 2001. "You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do. I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe."




http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/p...t-91/10373935/

[Historian]

Thanks For This!

MdmeX, until I read your post above I did not realize we’d lost another great black icon!

The article in the link that you posted sums up her career -- and that of her late husband Ossie Davis -- quite adequately. I’ll just add that these two great African American stars also had one of the most exemplary marriages that any celebrity couple can have! Like the late Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis provided an example, for many decades, of what is truly meant by the marriage vow!

RIP Ruby Dee, you great actress!

(By the way, my favorite of her roles is as Ruth Younger in the screen adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s famous play, “A Raisin in the Sun.”)

NEW YORK — Her long career brought her an Oscar nomination at age 83 for best supporting actress for her role in the 2007 film American Gangster. She also won an Emmy and was nominated for several others. Age didn't slow her down.

"I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire,'" Dee told The Associated Press in 2001. "You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do. I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe."




http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/p...t-91/10373935/