Veiled Aristocrats

Description
Number FIDR 021
Collection FIDR
Title Veiled Aristocrats
Duration 00:42:06
Date of production 1932
Summary One of Micheaux’s most controversial films, Veiled Aristocrats (1932) addresses the question of the price of success in a middle class Black community through the story of racial “passing.” Lorenzo Tucker (known as the ‘Black Valentino’) stars in this story of a lawyer who returns home to find that his light-skinned sister is about to marry a dark-skinned man, while his mother has picked a more suitable candidate.