[Ossie Davis as Purlie Victorious Judson and Ruby Dee as Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins in "Purlie Victorious".]

[Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger, Claudia McNeil as Lena Younger and Ossie Davis as Walter Lee Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun".]

[Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger, Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger and Claudia McNeil as Lena Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun".]

[Ian Keith as Major Robert Spaulding, Josh White, Jr. as Jimmy Clay, and Ossie Davis as Dr. Joseph Clay in "Touchstone".]

[Ruby Hill as Della Green, Rex Ingram as Biglow Brown and Harold Nicholas as Li'l Augie in "St. Louis Woman".]

[Alease Whittington as Lu Ann and Billy Dee Williams as Duke Custis in "The Cool World".]

[Ossie Davis in "The Green Pastures".]

[Ossie Davis as Cicero in "Jamaica".]

[Ralph Morgan as Mayor Orden and Otto Kruger as Colonel Lanser in "The Moon Is Down".]

[Ossie Davis as Gabriel in "The Green Pastures".]

[James Barton as Theodore Hickman and Dudley Digges as Harry Hope in "The Iceman Cometh".]

[Will Mastin as Uncle, Sammy Davis, Sr. as Dad and Sammy Davis, Jr. as Charlie Welch in "Mr. Wonderful".]

[William Marshall and Ossie Davis in "The Green Pastures".]

[Ossie Davis and William Marshall in "The Green Pastures".]

[Angela Lansbury as Helen, Joan Plowright as Josephine and Billy Dee Williams as The Boy in "A Taste of Honey".]

[Constance Cummings as Antiope, Joseph Bova as Theseus and Joyce Redman as Hippolyte in "Rape of the Belt".]

[Anatol Winogradoff as Esdras and Margo as Miriamne in "Winterset".]

[Henry Stephenson as Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga and Katharine Cornell as Ana de Mendoza y de Gomez in "That Lady".]

[Lucile Watson as Fanny Farrelly and Paul Lukas as Kurt Muller in "Watch on the Rhine".]

[Harold Nicholas as Li'l Augie, Fayard Nicholas as Barney and Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in "St. Louis Woman".]