Veiled Aristocrats

Veiled Aristocrats is a 1932 American PreCode race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film deals with the theme of passing by mixedrace African Americans to avoid racial discrimination, and is a remake of The House Behind the Cedars 1927, based on a novel by the same name published in 1900 by Charles W. Chesnutt.

After Rena reluctantly agrees, her brother sets her up in a fancy home with AfricanAmerican servants, who are initially unaware of Renas African ancestry. Rena is pursued by a white highclass man who proposes marriage. Becoming uncomfortable with the situation, Rena tells her brother that she is a negress and is tired of being a liar and a cheat. Rena reunites with Frank and they elope.Veiled Aristocrats was Oscar Micheauxs second film adaptation of the 1900 novel The House Behind the Cedars by the author Charles W. Chesnutt. In 1927 he made a silent film production of it no print of that film is known to exist today. In his 1932 version, Micheaux altered the Chesnutt story by having Rena and Frank marry. Chesnutts book ends with Renas death. Micheauxs screenplay is often blunt in its exploration of color lines within the AfricanAmerican community at one point John says Ive heard, right on the street, a coal black Negro declares he loves her ........

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