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Illusions (Video)

The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Duprée, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white, and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo.

 A Women Make Movies film. 34 minutes. 1983. Feature Film by Julie Dash.

 

Last Updated: 2/9/07