I Passed for White

Infobox Film
name = I Passed for White


image_size =
caption = Theatrical poster to "I Passed for White"
director = Fred M. Wilcox
producer = Fred M. Wilcox
writer = Fred M. Wilcox
Mary Hastings Bradley (novel)
Reba Lee (novel)
narrator =
starring = Sonya Wilde
James Franciscus
music = Jerry Irvin
John Williams
cinematography = George J. Folsey
editing = George White
distributor = Allied Artists Pictures
released = March 18, 1960
runtime = 93 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0053933

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, Patricia Michon, and Isabel Cooley.

The film was released by Televista on March 18, 1960. In the movie a young African American woman living in Chicago with her family travels to New York and starts a new life as a white woman. She meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him she is is not who she appears to be. He and his rich family and friends are white. Eventually, she and her husband divorce. She then returns to her family in Chicago and her original identity.

ee also

*Imitation of Life (1934 film)
*Pinky (film)
*Lost Boundaries
*The Human Stain
*Anatole Broyard

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053933/ I Passed for White] on Internet Movie Database


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