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I Passed for White (1960) starring James Franciscus, Sonya Wilde In I Passed for White, a middle class girl, who looks white but is “secretly” black, marries a wealthy white man. This leads to conflict, as she tries to hide her past from his racist family.
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August 12, 2022 user
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Show Boat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner Product description of Show Boat One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown...
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May 4, 2022 user
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Finian’s Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn Fred Astaire sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian’s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in...
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March 30, 2022 user
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Crossfire (1947) starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchell, Robert Ryan, Sam Levene Synopsis of Crossfire Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan star in this noir classic, the first Hollywood film to confront anti-Semitism. When a police detective and an army sergeant investigate the murder of a Jewish man, their...
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February 19, 2018 user
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