Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, and Dwan Smith in Sparkle (1976)

Irene Cara, Dorian Harewood, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, and Philip Michael Thomas in Sparkle (1976)

Lonette McKee and Dwan Smith in Sparkle (1976)

Gregory Hines and Lonette McKee in The Cotton Club (1984)

Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, and Lonette McKee in The Cotton Club (1984)

Wesley Snipes and Lonette McKee in Jungle Fever (1991)

"Mignon Dupree" (Lonette McKee) passes for white in "Illusions" a film set within a fictional Hollywood Studio in the 1940's.