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. By The Associated Press Barbara ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES – Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show, has died, her sister said Monday. She was 72. McNair died Sunday after a battle with throat cancer ...

The backdrop for Barbara McNair’s career -- as a Broadway actress, nightclub singer and host of a television musical variety show -- was her beauty. In the late 1960s and ‘70s, at the height of her ...

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, ...

> In certain respects, Barbara McNair (Feb. 4, age 72) was a star typical of her heyday, the 1950s and '60s: She gained fame as a singer and parlayed it into acting roles—first on Broadway in The Body ...

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 ...

Ms. McNair, who was blessed with large dark eyes, strong cheekbones and a shapely figure, made news in 1968 when she appeared nude in the film "If He Hollers, Let Him Go!" She did an about face the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday ...