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A Raisin in the Sun

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Calorie Rating: 180
Released: 1961-05-28
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Budget: 1500000
Studios: Columbia Pictures,


Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

Director / Directors

Sam Nelson
Assistant Director


Cast

Sidney Poitier
Character: Walter Lee Younger
Claudia McNeil
Character: Lena Younger
Ruby Dee
Character: Ruth Younger

Diana Sands
Character: Beneatha Younger
Ivan Dixon
Character: Asagai
John Fiedler
Character: Mark Lindner

Louis Gossett Jr.
Character: George Murchison
Stephen Perry
Character: Travis Younger
Joel Fluellen
Character: Bobo

Louis Terrel
Character: Herman
Roy Glenn
Character: Willie Harris
George DeNormand
Character: Employer (uncredited)

Bob Sweeney
Character: Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)
Thomas D. Jones
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Rudolph Monroe
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Ray Stubbs
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
David Susskind
Character: On-screen Trailer Narrator (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Laurence Rosenthal
Original Music Composer

Richard H. Kline
Camera Operator
Louis Diage
Set Decoration
Helen Hunt
Hairstylist


Carl Anderson
Art Direction
Charles Lawton Jr.
Director of Photography

Ben Lane
Makeup Artist

Arthur Morton
Orchestrator
Philip Rose
Producer
Stephen Shalom
Executive Producer