Veiled Aristocrats
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Directed by Oscar Micheaux • 1932 • United States
Starring Lucille Lewis, Lawrence Chenault, Walter Fleming
A remake of director Oscar Micheaux’s (now lost) 1925 film THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS, VEILED ARISTOCRATS exists in incomplete form, but the missing footage does not impair one’s enjoyment of this drama—punctuated with song-and-dance numbers—of a woman wrestling with the decision of whether to marry a successful light-skinned man or an idealistic entrepreneur of darker complexion.
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