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Imitation of Life (1959)
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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. Director:Douglas Sirk |
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Steve Archer
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| Sandra Dee | ... |
Susie - 16
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Robert Alda | ... |
Allen Loomis
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Dan O'Herlihy | ... |
David Edwards
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| Juanita Moore | ... |
Annie Johnson
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Karin Dicker | ... | |
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Terry Burnham | ... |
Susie - 6
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John Vivyan | ... |
Young Man
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Lee Goodman | ... |
Photographer
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Ann Robinson | ... |
Showgirl
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| Troy Donahue | ... |
Frankie
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Sandra Gould | ... |
Annette
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David Tomack | ... |
Mr. McKenney
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Storyline
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. Written by alfiehitchie
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Solange es Menschen gibt See more »Filming Locations:
Aquarius Theater - 6230 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$2,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$25,000,000 (Worldwide) (1 January 1970)Company Credits
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Juanita Moore as Annie Johnson", even though she had already appeared in
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Words and music by Unknown
Performed by Mahalia Jackson See more »
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The exterior shot of Lora Meredith's lavish ranch style house would later be used for the the exterior shots of the Hart's home in the TV show Hart to Hart. See more »Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Steve's photo of Lora as a 'mother in distress' shows no people in the background, but when we see Lora looking for Susie at the start of the film, the boardwalk is packed with people. See more »Quotes
Lora Meredith: Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!See more »
Crazy Credits
Juanita Moore, who plays Annie, is billed with the credit "And PresentingJuanita Moore as Annie Johnson", even though she had already appeared in
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Soundtracks
"Trouble of the World"Words and music by Unknown
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