# What Academy Award winning actor carried a candy bar in the pocket of his suit at all times?

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It’s not just a very old thread, but it’s already been answered.  
From just a few posts up:

> The long journey: a biography of Sidney Poitier  
> Carolyn H. Ewers - 1969 - 126 pages - Snippet view  
> Somewhere inside the successful actor, even then, lived a small boy who liked to know he had a candy bar in his pocket, just in case . . . Clothing was hard to come by, too. As often as he could, Cyril, one of his elder brothers who had …

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