Imitation Of Life

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Imitation of Life The conflict between mothers and daughters has been a theme in Hollywood since the beginning of film. Sometimes director picture the conflict badly like in “Mommie Dearest” and others do it well like in “The Joy Luck Club”. “Imitation of Life,” by Douglas Sirk starring Lana Turner and Juanita Moore fit in the right in with the movie that take the mother and daughter well. Lora Meredith (Turner) is a single thirtyish widow with the ambitious to be Broadway actress. One day, Susie, daughter of Lora, wondered off on the beach leaving Lora to look around for her, Lora with a photographer, Steve Archer’s help she find Susie with Sarah Jane and her mother, Annie Johnson (Moore), a single African American widow. After the two widows talk for a few minutes, we figured out that Lora’s drive for her ambition to be an actress was block by her age so she was in a tough economic time, and that Annie and Sarah Jane just moved to the neighborhood and did not have time to find a place to stay, so after Annie asks Lora to work for her to live with her family. The film expanded for a decade, and for the duration of the decade Lora Meredith become a well-established performer on Broadway, and with the money she made she used it to eventually sent Susie to Denver, Colorado for boarding school. On the other hand, Annie was still working for Lora, as she worked she save her income for future expenses. Sarah Jane, a white skinned African-American who is able to pass as white or black, who established a hatred of her own race, and her annoyed by her mother’s skin color and her class. She is planning to move away from her family’s heritage, which leads up to literally breaking of her mother’s heart. “Imitation of Life” is outwardly a rich film from its lush rich coloring, gorgeous actress and expensive costumes. The nature of the film comes to light with the
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