Imitation Of Life - Region 2 DVD
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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 her status as a domestic never chan
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Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Release date: 11 April 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5050582341461
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Release date: 11 April 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5050582341461
