Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and twice played Sidney Poitier’s wife in the early 1970s, died Sunday in Los Angeles of throat cancer. She was ...
Barbara McNair—like Nancy Wilson, Diahann Carroll, Gail Fisher, Della Reese and Freda Payne—was an enormously talented Black supper-club singer, variety show guest, and theater, TV and film actress.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barbara McNair (March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an African-American singer and actress. Born Barbara Joan McNair in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Racine, ...
Los Angeles, CA -- Singer and actress Barbara McNair has died in Los Angeles after battling throat cancer. She was 72. Highlights of her career included co-starring with Sidney Poitier and hosting her ...
LOS ANGELES - Barbara McNair, the beautiful singer and actress who hosted her own TV variety show and co-starred with Sidney Poitier, has died, her sister said Monday. She was 72. McNair died Sunday ...