Imitation of Life Movie (1959)
A struggling young actress with a six year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a homeless black widow and her light-skinned eight year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white.
Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson, a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though, Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.
Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson, a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though, Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.
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This movie is great. I like her and her maids relationship.
Took my mother to see this movie when it first came out we both cried like babies,its a real tear jerker.
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Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson, a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though, Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.Details
- Rated: NOT RATED
- Runtime: 2:05 hours
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Douglas Sirk
- Writer: Eleanore Griffin (screenplay), Allan Scott (screenplay), Fannie Hurst (novel)
- Actors: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations
- Production Company: Universal Studios
- ASIN: B002ET6P3Q
- Year Released: 1959
- Release Date: Apr 29, 1959
- DVD Date: Jan 6, 2003
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