Dona Drake’s Hollywood career was built on a hidden identity
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Dona Drake was born Eunice Westmoreland in Florida in 1914 to parents who were listed as Black in census records. Because of her light skin and features, she often identified publicly as Mexican or Hispanic and used names like Una Novella or Rita Novella early in her career.  Hollywood studios at that time generally did not cast Black women in leading or “non-ethnic” roles, so by presenting herself as non-Black she was able to work in more varied “exotic” parts (Latin American, Middle Eastern,
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Dona Drake was born Eunice Westmoreland in Florida in 1914 to parents who were listed as Black in census records. Because of her light skin and features, she often identified publicly as Mexican or Hispanic and used names like Una Novella or Rita Novella early in her career.  Hollywood studios at that time generally did not cast Black women in leading or “non-ethnic” roles, so by presenting herself as non-Black she was able to work in more varied “exotic” parts (Latin American, Middle Eastern,
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Dona Drake and Eddie Cantor performing ''The Lady Dances'' in “Strike Me Pink” (1936), a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. | I'm Old Fashioned - Vintage Everyday
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Happy Black History Month to Dona Drake (Dough-na) we are clocking your tea!! Born Nov 15 1914 in Miami Florida as Eunice Westmoreland to Joseph Andrew Westmoreland and Novella Smith with the 1920 census listing her and her parents as mulatto. Her father was born in Arkansas and her mother born in Alabama both being listed as black in 1910 census. Meanwhile by 1950 Eunice would now be going by Dona Travilla living in California listing herself in the census as white and fully passing as Hispanic
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