Illusions

Author

Julie Dash

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Performers

Lonette McKee, Rosanne Katon, Ned Bellamy, Jack Radar.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [2005]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (34 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Dupree, 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."--Container.

Notes

"Digitally remastered"--Container.

Originally produced as a short film in 1982 (Container erroneously lists 1983; disc surface erroneously lists 1984).