Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.

Starring:

Ann Robinson, Bess Flowers, Billy House, Dan O'Herlihy, David Tomack, Eddie Parker, Eddie Smith, Elinor Donahue, Forbes Murray, George Barrows, Jack Weston, Joel Fluellen, John Gavin, John Vivyan, Juanita Moore, Lana Turner, Lee Goodman, Leota Lorraine, Mahalia Jackson, Maida Severn, Myrna Fahey, Napoleon Whiting, Paul Bradley, Peg Shirley, Robert Alda,

Genre:

Drama, Romance