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Nina Mae McKinney An actress who defied the barrier of race to find stardom in Europe
By Anita Gates
Her first film director had recognized her gift. “It took no great effort to bring it out,” Vidor wrote in “A Tree Is a Tree,” his 1953 memoir. “She just had it. Whatever you wanted, whatever you visualized, she could do it.”