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Title:

Veiled aristocrats [videorecording] / a Micheaux production ; [director, producer, writer Oscar Micheaux].

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Grapevine video,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

United States--Race relations.--Drama
Feature films.--United States
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951.
Bowman, Laura, 1881-1957.
Tucker, Lorenzo.
Chenault, Lawrence, 1877-
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. House behind the cedars.

Other Titles:

Mr. Adam's bomb.

Notes:

Based on the novel The house behind the cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt. Originally released as motion picture in 1932. Includes short subject: Mr. Adam's bomb (1949, 21 min.) starring Eddie Green. Laura Bowman, Lorenzo Tucker, Barrington Guy, Lawrence Chenault, Walter Fleming, Lucile Lewis, Carl Mahon, Bernadine Mason.

Summary:

Twenty years after leaving home, John Walden returns, having achieved his ambition to become a lawyer. He and his mother, Molly, discuss the marital situation of his sister, Rena, and the racial complications it poses. Molly asks John to break up Rena's romance with Frank because she disapproves of him and wants her daughter to marry a man of more refinement. Eventually, after trying to live the life her family desires for her, Rena renounces trying to pass for white, and is reunited with Frank.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)190752788

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)