Pinky
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Imitation of Life
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Shadows
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
The Human Stain
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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John Ford
Director
Juanita Moore
as
Nurse
Nina Mae McKinney
as
Rozelia
Paul Brinegar
as
Western Union Clerk
Robert Alda
as
Allen Loomis
Forbes Murray
as
Bit Part
Myrna Fahey
as
Iris Dawn
John Cassavetes
Director
Bobby Darin
as
Man Wearing Sun Glasses, Dancing and Later Chewing Gum at Rehearsal
Seymour Cassel
as
(uncredited)
Anthony Hopkins
as
Coleman Silk
Stella Hopkins
as
Faculty Committee Member
Nicole Kidman
as
Faunia Farley
Jeff Perry
as
Tennis Player
Martin Turner
as
Man at Funeral
Alan Hale
as
Martin, the Furniture Man
Joyce Compton
as
Young Woman at Party
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