Bernice Lee/Lila Brownell
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I Passed for White: Directed by Fred M. Wilcox. With Sonya Wilde, James Franciscus, Patricia Michon, Elizabeth Council. A young girl meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white.
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- Drama
- Fred M. Wilcox
- 1960-03-18
Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde) is a young woman of mixed African and European ancestry, living in Chicago with her family, and she is mistaken for a fully white woman by a white man, who tries to hit on her repeatedly. Her brother, more obviously of mixed heritage, fights off the man.
Sep 28, 2019 · I Passed for White is a 1960 film directed and adapted for the screen by Fred M. Wilcox from a novel of the same name by Reba Lee "as told to" Mary Hastings Bradley. A young girl meets and...
- 92 min
- 1.7M
- Reelblack One
Although she embraces her heritage, Bernice, against her black grandmother's advice to live life truthfully, heads to New York to start life anew as white under the assumed name Lila Brownell. She is quickly courted by Rick Leyton of a prominent white New England family.
A young, light-skinned African-American woman, tired of discrimination, decides to move away from home and pass for white, as the title says. With lightning speed she gets married to a wealthy white man, but, predictably, gets tied up in knots trying to hide her past.
A light-skinned black woman passing for white in 1960s New York has doubts about marrying a wealthy white man.
Watch I Passed for White with a subscription on Prime Video. A light-skinned black woman has nagging doubts about a marriage proposal by a wealthy white man.
- Drama
