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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I love this movie, because it's honest and it's an eye opener to a lot of situations we face today. My favorite part was when the mother finally stands up to her daughter. I learned to love and appreciate those who care about you, because you don't know what you're missing until it's gone. My Mother introduced me to this movie when I was a child. Older people would enjoy it or people with an old soul. Guess who's coming to dinner is another movie that's an eye opener for what we face today as well.
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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: B0000714BT
- Year Released: 1959
- Release Date: Apr 29, 1959
- DVD Date: Jan 6, 2003
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