LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer and actress Barbara McNair, who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and became one of the first black women to host her own television variety show, has ...

Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, died Feb. 4 of throat cancer in Los Angeles. She was 72. Ms.

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, ...

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 ...