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 ...

Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress ... she told the Post that a steamy 1968 photo spread she did for Playboy “helped my career immensely.” Frankie Laine, the big-voiced ...

Barbara McNair, singer and actress ... caused controversy as it was featured in a Playboy photo-spread. By way of contrast, her next film, Change of Habit (1969), featured her as a nun helping ...

Barbara McNair ... and an appealing sense of fun." As Ms. McNair gained notice in Hollywood in the late 1960s, she told The Post that a steamy 1968 photo spread she did for Playboy "helped ...

Singer and actress Barbara McNair ... Impossible. McNair was one of the first black TV stars in the US As she gained notice in Hollywood, she posed for Playboy magazine - later admitting the steamy ...

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 ...

Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress ... she told the Post that a steamy 1968 photo spread she did for Playboy “helped my career immensely.” Her career was hampered in 1972 ...

Los Angeles - Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted ... As she gained notice in Hollywood in the late 1960s, she told the Post that a steamy 1968 photo spread she did for ...