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 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 ...

Singer and actress Barbara McNair has died in Los Angeles after battling throat cancer. She was 72. Highlights of her career included co-starring with Sidney Poitier and hosting her own TV variety ...

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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.

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LOS ANGELES — 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, her sister said Monday.

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, her sister said Monday. She was 72. Barbara ...

LOS ANGELES – 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, her sister said Monday.