Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands in A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Diana Sands in A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in Buck and the Preacher (1972)

Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in Our Virgin Island (1958)

Sean Connery and Ruby Dee in Just Cause (1995)

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in The Roseanne Show (1997)

Rue McClanahan and Ruby Dee in The Golden Girls (1985)

Ruby Dee promotes her last spoken word performance on radio in New York City.

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)

Ruby Dee speaks with her grandson about her childhood.

Ruby Dee speaks with her grandson about the importance of love and being faithful in marriage.

Eddie Murphy and Ruby Dee in A Thousand Words (2012)

Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Ruby Dee in Buck and the Preacher (1972)

Samuel L. Jackson and Ruby Dee in Jungle Fever (1991)

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in Jungle Fever (1991)

Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Joel Fluellen in A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bill Nunn in Do the Right Thing (1989)

Ruby Dee and Kevin Zegers in The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009)

Ally Sheedy, Ruby Dee, and Kate Siegel in Steam (2007)

Louis Gossett Jr., Ruby Dee, and Paul Winfield in It's Good to Be Alive (1974)

Ruby Dee and Diahann Carroll in Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)