Imitation of Life
1959
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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 18, 1959 |
Starring:
Dan O'Herlihy, John Gavin, John Vivyan, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker, Lana Turner, Robert Alda, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Terry Burnham
Summary:
An aspiring white actress befriends an African American widow, but trouble arises when the latter is rejected by her daughter, who tries to pass for white.
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A film that can tear you apart emotionally; it's both one of the great movie soap operas and a powerful indictment of racism. Sirk's cool, elegant style--smooth as silk on top, jagged and hot with feeling below--has rarely been joined to a more perfect subject. [05 May 2006, p.C9]
Laugh if you want at Imitation of Life or any of Sirk’s primal cinematic operas. Although if you can laugh at the film’s end, when Mahalia Jackson herself sings “Trouble of the World,” I can’t help you. Just understand that when you laugh, you’re really laughing at yourself, and you’re laughing to keep from crying.
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