Actress Ruby Dee Dies Peacefully At 91

The big screen came calling that year as well, starring in the film “That Man Of Mine,” and two years later, she starred in “What A Guy” that featured an all-Black cast. It wasn’t until the 1950′s “The Jackie Robinson Story” that Hollywood began to take notice of the glamorous Harlem native. Dee played the pioneering baseball star’s wife in the film, opposite of Robinson who played himself.

Born as Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922, she took the surname Dee after marrying blues singer Frankie Dee two decades later. She divorced Dee after a short marriage and was wedded to Davis in 1948. Davis preceded his wife in death in 2005. Dee — often with her late husband, Ossie Davis — was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washingon, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League. I think we need to be on Legend Patrol, they are dropping pretty damn fast. Shirley, Mickey, Ann B. Miller, Maya & Now Ruby.

Star Boy - The Blackfoot Indian Legend of the Two Morning Stars was CBS Radio Workshop's 27th program, a culturally sensitive and accurate dramatization of the ancient story of love describing the two morning stars that can be witnessed side by side at various times of the year. Woven from both Blackfoot Nation legend and traditional folklore, the story traces as far back as the Middle Ages of North America to describe the evolution of the legend. The Workshop went to great lengths to both accurately score and provide the sound effects to accompany the legend.

Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922, and moved to New York's Harlem as a child. She took the surname Dee after marrying blues singer Frankie Dee two decades later. She divorced Dee after a short marriage and was wedded to Davis in 1948. Davis preceded his wife in death in 2005. Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922, and moved to New York’s Harlem as a child. She took the surname Dee after marrying blues singer Frankie Dee two decades later. She divorced Dee after a short marriage and was wedded to Davis in 1948. Davis preceded his wife in death in 2005. Rest In Peace Ruby Dee and may God’s open arms welcome you in to His Kingdom. Job well done faithful servant!!! The force of Marina Abramovic

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