LoginImitation of Life (Two Movie Collection) 1934/1959 - Region 1 DVD
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Imitation of Life (1959)
The last film in Hollywood of director Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind), the 1959 Imitation of Life--an adaptation of Fannie Hurst's novel--is an endlessly fascinating film that speaks volumes about the American journey toward materialism and the racial tensions that are inseparable from it. Lana Turner plays a white single mother and aspiring actress who takes in a black housekeeper (Juanita Moore) and her daughter (played by an adolescent Susan Kohner), the latter so light-skinned she passes for white. As the years pass and success mounts for Turner, Moore also becomes more comfortable but he
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Release date: 10 February 2004
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780783287065 UPC: 025192423321
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Release date: 10 February 2004
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780783287065 UPC: 025192423321
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