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Imitation of Life (1959)

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Director:

Douglas Sirk

Starring:

Lana Turner, Susan Kohner, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Troy Donahue, Juanita Moore, David Tomack, Sandra Gould, Ann Robinson, Lee Goodman, John Vivyan, Karin Dicker, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Alda, Terry Burnham

Genres:

Drama Classics, Romantic Drama, US Classics

Origin:

USA

Certificate:

PG

Languages:

English

Running Time:

125 min

Imitation of Life

synopsis


Aspiring actress Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) 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 (Karen Dicker and, later, Susan Kohner), 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 (Terry Burnham and then Sandra Dee) in a single-minded quest for stardom. Legendary movie director Douglas Sirk's last American film.

 
 

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