Famous Figures

Hepburn refused to play the studio system's game - she wore trousers when the studio forbade it, bought back her contract when they assigned her bad roles, returned to theatre when Hollywood labelled her box-office poison, and came back on her own terms. Her career is a sustained Integrity act.

Newman's decades of racing alongside working drivers rather than in celebrity events, his founding of Newman's Own with the commitment that all profits go to charity, and his documented refusal to use his fame for endorsements that compromised his self-respect, reflect an Integrity orientation maintained under conditions of extreme privilege and temptation.

Poitier's documented refusal of roles that required him to play degrading stereotypes - in an era when such refusal meant very limited work - and his consistent insistence that his characters carry full human dignity, represent an Integrity orientation that altered what Black actors were allowed to be in American cinema.