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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.
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
Nov 19, 2021 · Kelly McWilliams writes about being a light-skinned Black woman, the one time she intentionally passed for white and the grief she felt about that decision.
- Kelly Mcwilliams
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.
I Passed for White (1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
At a fast-moving 93 minutes, it's a cautionary tale about the road to unhappiness experienced by a fair-skinned “black” woman who chooses to “pass” (let stand assumptions that she is not black) for white.
