Shadows
Oct 14, 1960 | IMDB 6.9
87 min Watch NowDrama
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.
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Sita Sings the Blues
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The Benny Goodman Story
The Gene Krupa Story
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