Veiled Aristocrats

Veiled Aristocrats is a 1932 American pre-Code race film written, directed, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux.

He discovers domestic turmoil: his mother is trying to dissuade his sister Rena, who is also light-skinned, from being romantically involved with Frank Fowler (Carl Mahon), a dark-skinned African-American businessman.

Micheaux's screenplay is often blunt in its exploration of color lines within the African-American community; at one point John says: "I've heard, right on the street, a coal black Negro declares he loves her!

[5] Laura Bowman was the leading lady in several of Micheaux's films during the 1930s, including Ten Minutes to Live (1932) and Murder in Harlem (1935).

Most of the final ten minutes of the surviving incomplete version consists of musical numbers performed by Rena's house servants, including a rendition of the song "River, Stay Away from My Door".