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Actor Born: August 29, 1917 in New York City, NY Death: July 9, 2004 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Defying her mother's wishes, African-American actress "Isabel Sanford" secretly worked as a nightclub performer in her teens. Upon winning 3rd prize in an Apollo Theatre amateur contest, Sanford could keep her new career a secret no longer. Married to a house painter who worked only on a seasonal basis, she held down a full-time job as a keypunch operator at the New York City department of Welfare, spending her evenings acting with such groups as Harlem Y and the American Negro Theatre. Seeking out better opportunities, Sanford packed her family into a bus and headed to Hollywood in the early 1960s. Her breakthrough film role was in "Stanley Kramer"'s "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"; she played Tillie the cook, who heartily disapproved of the upcoming interracial marriage between "Katharine Houghton" and "Sidney Poitier" (the hardest part of this assignment was not mouthing the "controversial"... Full Biography
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