In this episode we discuss Best Picture nominee The Defiant Ones, Sidney Poitier’s rise to Hollywood stardom, the first openly blacklisted writer to win an Academy Award, Walt Disney’s pre-Disney years, his record setting twenty-two Academy Award wins, and his complicated, but inspiring legacy.

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