Veiled Aristocrats

IMDb link: 0023655
IMDb rating: 4.9 (197 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Oscar Micheaux
Cast: Lawrence Chenault, Laura Bowman, Lucille Lewis, Walter Fleming and others

Release date: 1 Feb 1932
Release year: 1932
Runtime: 48 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: all black cast, african american, racism, nightclub, partially lost film, based on novel

Plot:

John Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too can live a life as a white woman. He even goes so far as to find her a suitable white man to marry. Unfortunately, she can not get over the young black man she left back home.

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