FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1963 file photo, actors Ossie Davis, left, and Ruby Dee pose in front of the movie poster at the opening night gala of their film "Gone Are the Days!" based on Davis' play "Purlie Victorious," at the Trans-Lux East Theater in New York City. Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91, according to her daughter. Nora Davis Day told The Associated Press on Thursday, June 11, 2014, that her mother died at home at New Rochelle, New York, on Wednesday night. (AP Photo, file)