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Nov 19, 2021 · November 19, 2021 8:43 AM EST. Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming Mirror Girls, a novel about sisterhood and passing. A s a light-skinned Black woman, I have purposefully passed for ...
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English. Box office. $1,700,000 (US/ Canada) [1] I Passed for White is a 1960 American drama 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. The film stars Sonya Wilde and James Franciscus and features Jimmy Lydon, Patricia Michon, and Isabel Cooley.
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
Kittenish Sonya Wilde, a white actress, plays a young biracial woman who appears to have white skin. She leaves her family and moves to New York where she unexpectedly falls in love with James Franciscus. She hides her background from him but her web of lies grows unmanageable when she becomes pregnant. Forbidden Planet's Fred Wilcox fills the ...
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Fred M. Wilcox Enterprises Inc.
Bertha (as Isabelle Cooley) Jimmy Lydon. ... Jay Morgan (as James Lydon) Thomas Browne Henry. ... Dr. Merritt (as Thomas B. Henry) Max Mellinger.
Mar 21, 2021 · Being able to pass for White sometimes meant the difference between a life in captivity and a life of freedom. In fact, the enslaved couple William and Ellen Craft escaped from bondage in 1848 after Ellen passed as a young White planter and William as her servant. The Crafts documented their escape in the enslaved narrative "Running a Thousand ...
7/10. While it might seem a bit strange today, back in 1960 this was a controversial film. planktonrules 19 September 2011. This film stars Sonya Wilde as a biracial lady and James Franciscus plays her boyfriend who has no idea she isn't 100% lily-white. At first, Sonya doesn't want to pose as white--but she doesn't really fit in with black ...
