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“As far as Black entertainers were concerned, Belafonte in many ways seemed to be a startling new kind of figure,” said Donald Bogle, a culture critic and author of numerous books on Black Americans in film and television.

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And television, which was becoming a potent cultural force in America at the time, helped make Belafonte and his music popular to a vast audience “because people could see him, and his look was very important,” said Bogle.

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Through television, “you got a sense of his sex appeal,” said Bogle.

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But, as Bogle observed, “the filmmakers would not allow Belafonte and Fontaine to kiss, nor was their relationship fully explored.”

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But, Bogle said, “Belafonte in movies was never what he was on television in terms of his impact, in part because of the compromises of the scripts and his own persona. He didn’t have that kind of magnetism on the big screen.”

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