de Theda Bara ( la première vamp) à Warren Beatty et Errol Flynn en passant par  Montgomery Clift.

http://thehairpin.com/user/2957/sassafras  ( et pages suivantes)

Il faut signaler l’affaire Dorothy Dandridge.

Dorothy Dandridge vs. The World

Her beauty was indeed phenomenal. She was called “the black Marilyn Monroe” and had flawless, radiant skin the black press referred to as “honey” and “cafe au lait.” And there was the certain way she took ownership of a room, with a reverberating, confident laugh and fierce, dazzling eyes. But being a black actor in the 1950s meant playing savages, slaves, and mamies — debasing roles that Dandridge refused on principle. In the films where she did get to play a a non-servant, non-exotic, non-savage, she was not allowed to do more than kiss, as the idea of a black woman in love was altogether too dangerous for the screen. “If I were white,” Dandridge explained, “I would capture the world.”