One former student, Alfred Gardner, would allege that Braithwaite himself sanitized his life. “The movie made it look like fun and games,” the author later observed. He criticized director-screenwriter James Clavell for downplaying the author’s interracial romance with a fellow teacher and said Poitier’s performance was too light-hearted. 1 hit.Īudiences loved the movie, but critics found it too sentimental Braithwaite agreed. The title song, performed on screen and on record by Lulu, became a No. Poitier played Braithwaite (renamed Thackeray) in the 1967 release and the pop star Lulu was featured as one of the students. The autobiographical tale about how a West Indian of patrician manner scolded, encouraged and befriended a rowdy, mostly white class of East End teens, who in turn softened him, was an immediate success and a natural for film. To Sir, With Love, his first and most famous book, was published in 1959. Guyana President David Granger on Tuesday remembered Braithwaite as “an eminent Guyanese and distinguished diplomat.” Upon his 100th birthday, he received an honorary medal from his native country for lifetime achievement. Braithwaite also served in the 1960s as the newly independent Guyana’s first representative at the United Nations and later was ambassador to Venezuela.
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