Angelitos Negros (1948) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1948 · 100 mins · Spanish

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Starring

Rita Montaner, Lupe Carriles, Nicolás Rodríguez, Emilia Guiú, Antonio R. Frausto, Joselito Rodríguez

Starring Mexican icon Pedro Infante, the film follows a white couple—a beautiful woman and a singer—who raise a black daughter. Tensions rise as the mother blames the father, and the child endures racist prejudice from her own mother. It is the Mexican adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s celebrated novel “Imitation of Life.”