I feel that the user reviews were articulate and genuine but the casting improper. Jeanne Crain is too fair to portray a black woman. A better choice would have been Jennifer Jones. It is not only skin color, but features. As beautiful as Halle Berry is, for example, she is not as white as Jeanne Crain. The grouchy relative of Ms. Em even said: "Why, she's whiter than me."
The film is good but the one thing that left me disappointed was this one factor. I know women who have no black heritage in their ancestory yet they have a darker complexion and broader features than Ms. Crain.
Trite point? Probably, but it distracted me from the essence of the film.
The film is good but the one thing that left me disappointed was this one factor. I know women who have no black heritage in their ancestory yet they have a darker complexion and broader features than Ms. Crain.
Trite point? Probably, but it distracted me from the essence of the film.