One Potato, Two Potato

One Potato, Two Potato Information

One Potato, Two Potato is a 1964 black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton.

Plot

The story concerns the difficulties faced by an interracial marriage between an African-American office worker and a white divorcee. The climax of the film is a highly emotional courtroom custody case in which the woman's angry ex-husband demands custody of their daughter, charging that the child's welfare is threatened by the environment created by her marriage to a black man.

Additional information

It was shot in its entirety in and around the small northeastern Ohio city of Painesville.

For her role as Julie Cullen Richards, Barrie won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.

The screenplay, written by Orville H. Hampton and Raphael Hayes, was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1964 Academy Awards, losing to eventual winners S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloffo for Father Goose.

Cast

Barbara Barrie as Julie Cullen Richards
Bernie Hamilton as Frank Richards
Richard Mulligan as Joe Cullen
Harry Bellaver as Judge Powell
Marti Mericka as Ellen Mary
Robert Earl Jones as William Richards
Vinnette Carroll as Martha Richards
Sam Weston as Johnny Hruska
Faith Burwell as Ann Hruska
Jack Stamberger as The Minister
Michael Shane as Jordan Hollis

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