> Also significant to the representation of miscegenation is > *1955's* LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING--featuring a > romance between Eurasian Jennifer Jones and Caucasian > William Holden. It's interesting for several reasons-- > including the casting of Jones instead of an Asian actor-- I thought the seach for interracial romance implied that one of the characters would have biological ties to the race. Otherwise, interracial romances are depicted onscreen long before *Dinner.* *Pinky,* (1949), Kazan, for example. Except that the African-American character is a European-American impersonating a Black woman. This is my chance to go public with my concerns about *Imitation of Life* (1959), Sirk. Susan Kohner, who plays Sarah Jane and engages in an interracial romance with a European-American man, is not "white" as many have claimed. Her father was Czech and her mother Mexican. I have never encountered any depiction of Kohner as anything other than "white." Gloria Monti ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]