Hollywood has lost a true icon with the death of Sidney Poitier ... Playing on the premise that “love is blind,” in “A Patch of Blue,” Poitier played a Black man who befriends a young ...

In his big-screen debut, Sidney Poitier makes a memorable ... “A Patch of Blue” (1965) Poitier’s Gordon Ralfe falls for a poor blind white girl (Elizabeth Hartman) in this drama — which ...