Juanita Moore

Juanita Moore

Birthday: 1914-10-19

Place of Birth: Greenwood, Mississippi, USA

Biography: Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) was an American film and television actress. She is the fifth black American to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Supporting Actress category.

Movies

The Kid
The Kid

Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the ...

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Two Moon Junction
Two Moon Junction

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marri...

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Skin Game
Skin Game

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Norther...

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Women's Prison
Women's Prison

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison....

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Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black...

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Hollywood Legenden
Hollywood Legenden

Documentary about Hollywood....

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The Mack
The Mack

A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his a...

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The Girl Can't Help It
The Girl Can't Help It

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi...

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Band of Angels
Band of Angels

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed fa...

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Walk on the Wild Side
Walk on the Wild Side

At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam...

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Witness to Murder
Witness to Murder

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom wind...

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Affair in Trinidad
Affair in Trinidad

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....

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Tammy Tell Me True
Tammy Tell Me True

Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman ...

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The Whole World Is Watching
The Whole World Is Watching

In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nic...

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Show Boat
Show Boat

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the ...

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And They're Off
And They're Off

A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage....

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O'Hara's Wife
O'Hara's Wife

Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to ha...

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Abby
Abby

When a minister's wife becomes possessed by Eshu, the Nigerian god of sexuality, an exorcist is call...

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Uptight
Uptight

Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants build...

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Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a...

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Ransom!
Ransom!

A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers....

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Skirts Ahoy!
Skirts Ahoy!

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest troubl...

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Rosie!
Rosie!

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have...

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Thomasine & Bushrod
Thomasine & Bushrod

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white cap...

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The Helen Morgan Story
The Helen Morgan Story

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to al...

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Deliver Us From Evil
Deliver Us From Evil

Violent and dramatic events dog the life of hot headed rebel Chris Townes. Drifting from one menial ...

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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Everybody Rides the Carousel

"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stage...

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Fox Style
Fox Style

A wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs....

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Papa's Delicate Condition
Papa's Delicate Condition

A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the...

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A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story
A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story

A group of unknowns noticed that a legendary actress had no star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame....

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Double Deal
Double Deal

Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry...

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Paternity
Paternity

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who...

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So This Is Africa
So This Is Africa

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance....

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Broken Strings
Broken Strings

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes...

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Pinky
Pinky

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating...

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The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair w...

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Lydia Bailey
Lydia Bailey

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he mu...

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A Child Is Waiting
A Child Is Waiting

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hans...

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Murder at the Vanities
Murder at the Vanities

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...

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Something of Value
Something of Value

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier...

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Belle Starr
Belle Starr

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam...

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A Dream for Christmas
A Dream for Christmas

A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting aw...

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Bombers B-52
Bombers B-52

Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more re...

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Rita
Rita

Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth....

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Lord of the Jungle
Lord of the Jungle

The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants....

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Little Black Angels
Little Black Angels

A racist woman who doesn't know about her own mixed heritage—even though she's lived with her black ...

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Cabin in the Sky
Cabin in the Sky

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where h...

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The Singing Nun
The Singing Nun

Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled s...

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The Green-Eyed Blonde
The Green-Eyed Blonde

Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a ro...

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Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's ...

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Fugitive Lovers
Fugitive Lovers

A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt l...

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Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achi...

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Cleopatra
Cleopatra

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar....

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