24. She Starred In An Interracial Romance
In a sort of side-move towards progress, Dandridge starred in an interracial romance role in Island In the Sun, in which an Indian woman falls for a white man. While the progressive move towards depicting interracial relationships was positive for the time, casting a Black woman as a South Asian character is far from ideal. The movie had to tread lightly around the connection thanks to the era’s Motion Picture Production Code, which outright banned interracial relationships.
