Imitation Of Life Part 8/13

This is a movie that is brilliant, beautiful, and wonderfully tragic in it's portrayal of women, friendships, and Mothers & daughters in the late 50's. As a Biracial woman I found it very powerful in it's attempt to address the complexities of racial identity . Adapted from Fannie Hurst's novel it's 1959's Imitation of Life. Starring Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Gospel music star Mahalia Jackson.

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Film & Animation

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• Imitation Of Life
• Lana Turner
• Juanita Moore
• John Gavin
• Sandra Dee
• Susan Kohner
• Robert Alda
• Dan O'Herlihy
• Mahalia Jackson
• racial identity
• Biracial
• women
• 1959
• Mothers
• daughters

[impatientwithdesire]

aint it funny how they were ok with showing violence against women as long as the woman wasnt white? smh

[TakeMeBackTo1986]

Frankie: "Is your mother a nigger!" OMG! So FUCKING wrong man! I remember getting shit from my Girlfriend/Fiancee's family 'cuz i was a "Gringo" aka "Whiteboy" and i was dating their Mexican-American daughter! FUCK! I know that feeling! It sucks! Btw i'm no longer with her, because she listened to her mother and "didn't marry outside her race" I I Cried my fucking eyes out! I had NEVER experienced such Racism and never had been racist in my life! I didn't and still can't understand! ;(

[RanDumbReese]

@n0iwont MY. THOUGHTS. EXACTLY!

[SuniDays87]

@DragonflyNoir10 I wanted to know if you had or could find any of the old Dorothy Dandridge and or Harry Belafonte movies? Such as, Odds Against Tomorrow, Island in the Sun, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Porgy and Bess, Carmen Jones, and Tarzan's Peril. Thanks for your help! =)

[Pikafuli]

@lee2tre ....no... not in the 50's, hun.. unless you're in the deep, DEEP south.

DUH.

[7harobed]

STeve was beIng an selfish asshole

[bettyjoe5154]

id fucking beat the dog fuckin shit out of that guy for beating sarah jane

[lee2tre]

Well if she has a baby with a white man, the baby will come out brown. Back then she and the baby would be killed.

[n0iwont]

Annie is a tad too humble...

[n0iwont]

@ziyahd31 ...yes, I think that too... she's an irritating little blister with a mental age of 11.

[LuvvStarr]

how does Annie think that her daughter will give her any kind of respect when she's in the kitchen slaving way after she was in a well enough condition to live and have her own we live in a society where we must lead by example now I understand that it was Annies nature but look how she catered to Ms Meredith as if she were God and not just that Annies Image was of European she has her here straightened to there is no power in a false Image ...

[defundthewar]

What on earth is on the tiled floor near the door at 6:26?