 However, the fact that the friendship between the two actors remained until Lee's death suggests that Robeson put no faith in Winchell's claim.At the height of the Hollywood blacklist, Lee managed to find work in 1950 as the star of a British film "Cry, The Beloved Country", for which both he and Sidney Poitier were smuggled into South Africa as indentured servants in order to play their roles as African ministers.During filming, Lee had his first heart attack, and he never fully recovered his health.