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When Dona Drake made her feature-film debut in Strike Me Pink, she entered a Hollywood that offered almost no space for openly Black performers. Born Eunice Westmoreland in Miami, Drake was African American. But in the rigid studio system of the 1930s–50s, her light skin meant something else to executives: marketability — if her identity ...
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