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 ...

LOS ANGELES - 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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...