Chloe, Love is Calling You (1934)

Low budget, southern made exploration fair 'Chloe, Love is Calling You' is certainly distinctive. Brought back to the bayou  hovel where her "mammy" told her she was born, Chloe is a light skinned black girl romantically perused by a man who appears to be white, but who has some black ancestry and thus is outcast from white society. Chloe is not interested in her romantic pursuer believing that she can pass for white and has her eyes set on one particular white man. Only it turns out that Chloe is not in fact black, but acutely is white, her "mammy" kidnaped her as a baby from a wealthy white man she blames for the death of her husband, in fact the reason she has returned to her old home is to finally try and kill that man through a voodoo ceremony (we never learn if this guy is actually responsible for the mans death or not, in fact there is a lot of seemingly important information just missing from this movie). This at times uncomfortable oddity actually has a few interesting ideas in it, like what if you grew up thinking you were one race and then find out you are actually another, how does one process that, what mixed feelings there must be, Chloe however adjusts to this shift instantaneously. Along with plenty of mint julep drinking this film features a number of down on their luck former silent stars (including Reed Howes, and Olive Borden in the title role) slumming for cash. This movie was banned in Ohio. *1/2