Alan Hale, Claudette Colbert, Fredi Washington

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Unrated, 1 hr. 51 min.

Directed by: John M. Stahl

Release Date: January 1, 1934

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DVD Release Date: February 5, 2008

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  • November 19, 2007
    Great movie about friendship, racism. Surprised hollywood made this movie. Highly Recommended.
  • January 5, 2007
    Liked the other one with Lana Turner better. But this one was ok.
  • November 7, 2009
    This movie is great. It shows how a girl is ashamed of who she is because of the color of her skin. it kind of reminds me of Tony Morrison's "The Bluest eye" in the sense that here is someone who can clearly pass for white but she has a black mother and does everything within he...( read more)r power to deny her black mother until she has a revelation and its too late to turn back!
  • May 10, 2009
    Very good good movie!
  • March 5, 2009
    best movie ever so sad and really life teaching .
  • February 26, 2009
    One of the best Black and white movies made.
  • December 16, 2008
    Now I want to see the version with Lana Turner
  • September 4, 2008
    this is so much better than the other one
  • August 29, 2008
    Diffently a perspective of racial descrimination
  • August 13, 2008
    I found this one to be rather unbelievable--the guy that Claudette Colbert and her daughter (in the film) fell in love with was definitely miscast. Lana Turner's version was much better.

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  • bjb02004
    June 7, 2007
    This this film always reminds me of my own Mum. Tears,??? dawnpw1 knows what I mean. I have a mixed race daughter and she is in no way ashamed of me,I hope. Maybe she should be but there ya go.:) Shorty, if you see this you know I love ya "this big".

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