I Passed for White
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. The film stars Sonya Wilde, James Franciscus and features Jimmy Lydon, Patricia Michon, and Isabel Cooley. It was released by Allied Artists on March 18, 1960.
After a failed attempt at looking for employment as a black, she decides to leave town, use the name Lila Brownell and live as a white woman. On the plane to New York City she meets and eventually marries the man of her dreams Rick Leyton James Franciscus only she hasnt told him she is part black. He and his rich family and friends are white. Her white friend Sally Patricia Michon, and black maid Bertha Isabel Cooley both advise her not to tell him. She becomes pregnant, and fears the child will have black features or coloring and gets a book to read about this unlikely possibility, which she hides. Rick eventually discovers it, although their maid claims the book belongs to her.Lila goes into premature labor and has a stillborn child, but cries out Is the baby black? after she awakens from anesthesia. This leads Rick to suspect that his wife has been unfaithful. Eventually, she and her husband divorce without Bernice ever having revealed her true name or past. She then returns to her family in Chicago and her original identity. ........
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