Imitation of Life
Directors
Douglas Sirk
Actors
- Lana Turner
- John Gavin
- Sandra Dee
Credits: 1
Summary
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
More about this movie
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. However, Annie's little girl Sarah Jane is by far the worst. 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 trying to pass as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.