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		Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity.
		In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax.
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	Imitation of Life
		In 1934, the first film portrayal of Fannie Hurst& novel Imitation of Life was released.
		The production notes of the film even say, “In the earlier scenes, Lana’s [actress who plays Lora] hair is shoulder-length, becoming short-cropped and lighter blonde as the story spans a ten-year period” (“Imitation of Life: Production Notes” 184).
		The film was such a success, that it was remade and released again in 1959.
	www.unc.edu /~dallaire/imitation.html (713 words)

	Imitation of Life
		Douglas Sirk's 1959 version of Imitation of Life is a classic film about the relations between women and the relations between white and black women.
		Imitation of Life's focus on women's issues is perhaps no coincidence since the original novel was written by Fannie Hurst and some of the script writing was done by Eleanore Griffin; these women likely brought pieces of 1950's life into the film.
		Imitation of Life then is truly life, though perhaps 1950's society would like us to believe Lora Meredith is a bad imitation of a mother.
	www.wellesley.edu /Writing/Strongwomen/imlife.html (630 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Imitation of Life
		1959's sardonic Imitation of Life deals with blond bombshell Lora Meredith's rise to fame and her complicated relationships with a series of carnivorous men, her hot-headed daughter, and her angelic African-American maid Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore).
		Imitation of Life is drunk on the lies and gross assumptions of its characters and the way they feed off of deceptive surfaces.
		Imitation of Life ends with Moore's Annie Johnson being dramatically hoisted into a hearse as an entire black community mourns her passing.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=728 (1536 words)

	Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (1959)
		Read a biographical sketch of the author who wrote both the novel Imitation of Life and the screenplay for all three versions of the film, Fannie Hurst (1889-1968).
		Check out The Internet Movie Database's pages for the three versions of this story: Imitation of Life (1959) and Imitation of Life (1934), both made in Hollywood, and Angelitos negros (1948), made in Mexico.
		In Imitation of Life, we see the lives of four women and their attempts to make their lives more than mere imitations of life.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/life.html (1193 words)

	Jeremy Butler: Research Activities
		The styles of a film and its remake (Imitation of Life [John Stahl, 1934] and Imitation of Life [Douglas Sirk, 1959]) are analyzed in order to create a model of stylistic semiosis in the cinema.
		A model of film style's position within the semiotic process—articulating a signifier, a signified and a sign for style in narrative film.
		Chicago: The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
	www.tcf.ua.edu /jbutler/Research.htm (1058 words)

	Jeremy Butler: Research Activities
		The styles of a film and its remake (Imitation of Life [John Stahl, 1934] and Imitation of Life [Douglas Sirk, 1959]) are analyzed in order to create a model of stylistic semiosis in the cinema.
		A model of film style's position within the semiotic process—articulating a signifier, a signified and a sign for style in narrative film.
		Butler, Jeremy G. "The Raw and the Cooked 1984: Three Recent Films." Paper presented to the Broadcast and Film Communication Graduate Colloquium, The University of Alabama, 1984.
	www.tcf.ua.edu /jbutler/Research.htm (1058 words)

	FAQ
		Notable Films: Ziegfeld Girl (1941), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Peyton Place (1957), Imitation of Life (1959), Madame X (1966).
		First and Last Film: Lana had her first appearance in front of the camera in the 1937 version of A Star is Born, when the back of her head was used in one scene.
		What is On Your Top Ten List of Lana Films?
	www.lanaturneronline.com /Faq.htm (824 words)

	Imitation of Life - 1959 Actors and Music Sites
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	QUEEN, THE MINISERIES Covington-Whitmore Article WTR Spring/Summer 1995
		Indeed, in the 1959 version of Imitation of Life, all is well until the mulatto Sarah Jane's secret is revealed; then the young woman is savagely beaten and left in the gutter by her white boyfriend who discovers her deception.
		As Bogle (1973) notes, "Usually the mulatto is made likable -- even sympathetic (because of her white blood, no doubt) -- and the audience believes that the girl's life could have been productive and happy had she not been a 'victim of divided racial inheritance'" (p.
		D. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) broke new ground in terms of technical innovation; his imaginative use of cross-cutting, editing, lighting, and close-ups set the standard for the feature film.
	www.uga.edu /~womanist/1995/whitmore.html (2815 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		The New Jersey born actress was everyone's favorite blonde ingenue of the late fifties/early sixties and we're spotlighting her best films including Imitation of Life (1959) and Gidget (1959).
		Actress/filmmaker Illeana Douglas, TCM's Guest Programmer for April, joins TCM host Robert Osborne in introducing and commenting upon some of her favorite films?three of which are comedies starring her grandfather, the distinguished Melvyn Douglas.
		Blandings Builds His Dream Hous (1948); and admires the Paddy Chayefsky script for the political satire The Americanization of Emily (1964), in which her grandfather plays a wayward admiral in search of a hero during the D-Day invasion.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /thismonth/article/?cid=121601 (299 words)

	Susan Kohner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is most notable for portraying Sarah Jane, the African American teenage daughter who passes for white in the 1959 color remake of Imitation of Life.
		She is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Caucasian film producer Paul Kohner.
		Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_Kohner (160 words)

	Lana Turner Biography
		She had two other box-office smash hits, Imitation of Life (1959) and Madame X (1966), before her career began to slide.
		Turner portrayed an alcoholic actress in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as a neurotic mother in the blockbuster Peyton Place (1957).
		As legend has it, the golden-haired starlet was in high school when she was "discovered" at a soda fountain by a Hollywood film journalist.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4400/lturnerbio.htm (240 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Imitation Of Life (1959)
		In 1959, Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore lost the Best Supporting Actress oscar to Shelley Winters for "Diary of Anne Frank." While Winters certainly was a seasoned and excellent actress, I don't see how one can overlook Susan and Juanita's gutwrenching performances.
		The final portion of the film wherein we lose Ms.
		The film's famous last reel is touching and has the added effect of having Mahalia Jackson sing spirituals for the beloved Annie.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000714BT (956 words)

	Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Note: Although Juanita Moore plays a stereotypical character in Imitation of Life (1959), the film is largely a satire of the 1934 melodrama and the use of the stereotype is in part ironic.
		Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture in North America, involve a stereotypical representation of the typical characteristics of a members of an ethnic group in music, literature, print media, film and the performing arts that is often false or over-simplified.
		In the 1970s, a series of feature films that came to be known as blacksploitation movies brought stereotypical black American culture to the screen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnic_stereotypes_in_popular_culture (672 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Imitation of Life
		Fischer has assembled an important omnibus of source material and critical appraisals of Douglas Sirk's 1959 blockbuster Imitation of Life, which starred Lana Turner.
		It is a well-rounded study of the entire world of the film and its continuing reflection and impact upon American culture.
		He brings together selections from Fannie Hurst's 1932 novel (upon which the film was based); biographical information on Turner, Sirk, and Hurst; interviews with Sirk; reviews, critical writings, and commentaries; and Sirk's continuity script.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0813516455 (305 words)

	Encyclopedia: Douglas Sirk
		Imitation of Life is the title of a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst, which was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a black-and-white film in 1934, and a color remake in 1959.
		But it was at the pinnacle of his high-profile accomplishments as Universal's most successful director that he left the United States and filmmaking.
		Lugano in the 1900s Lugano is a city in south-east Switzerland, in the Italian speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Douglas-Sirk (305 words)

	Turner Classic Movies - Movie News
		The earliest and simplest of the set, 1959's Shadows offers a freeform rebuttal to the glossy Hollywood depictions of race relations found in films like Imitation of Life and the films of Stanley Kramer.
		Rowlands and company appear again, delivering somewhat more critical studies of his work with a focus on ethnical and symbolic threads running through his films.
		By far the most difficult film of the set, 1976's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie delves into seedier territory as strip club owner Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara), a former war vet and inveterate gambler, is confronted by gangsters over his escalating debt.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,82711,00.html (305 words)

	PopMatters Film Interview Chris and Paul Weitz - About A Boy
		Raised "in" the profession -- their dad is fashion designer/writer John Weitz and their mother is Susan Kohner, who played Sarah Jane in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959) -- Chris and Paul share a healthy perspective on the business and the art of movies.
		Well, that's interesting too, as a lot of your work has been mainstream-industry entertaining, with American Pie or the Chris Rock movie.
		Different as they may be, and they are, Chris and Paul Weitz appreciate the specific weirdness that each brings to their relationship, as brothers and filmmakers.
	www.popmatters.com /film/interviews/weitz-chris-paul.shtml (3651 words)

	Lana Turner News
		Dear Cathy: That's the 1959 film "Imitation of Life," which starred Lana Turner, Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner as the daughter.
		Actress Sharon Stone is still smarting Catherine Zeta-jones was chosen over her to appear in a biopic of Lana Turner, insisting the silver screen star wanted her in the role.
		News about Lana Turner continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
	www.topix.net /who/lana-turner (236 words)

	Susan Kohner News
		Dear Cathy: That's the 1959 film "Imitation of Life," which starred Lana Turner, Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner as the daughter.
		News about Susan Kohner continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Front Page > Entertainment News > People > Susan Kohner
	www.topix.net /who/susan-kohner (83 words)

	Imitation of Life comments - Douglas Sirk Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Robert Alda
		In 1959, Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore lost the Best Supporting Actress oscar to Shelley Winters for "Diary of Anne Frank." While Winters certainly was a seasoned and excellent actress, I don't see how one can overlook Susan and Juanita's gutwrenching performances.
		The star of the film is Lana Turner (dismissed by some as a studio invented "movie star") playing a serious stage actress.
		Lora is a Broadway starlet intent on hitting the big time, which will come at the cost of her daughter Susie (Sandra Dee), while Annie's daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) is a black girl with a pale complexion, who chooses to pass as white in order to avoid the hatred of a prejudiced world.
	www.mooviees.com /4437/comments (1313 words)

	PopMatters Film Interview Chris and Paul Weitz - About A Boy
		Raised "in" the profession -- their dad is fashion designer/writer John Weitz and their mother is Susan Kohner, who played Sarah Jane in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959) -- Chris and Paul share a healthy perspective on the business and the art of movies.
		Far less mainstream high-jinksy than their most famous film, American Pie, might suggest, they do cultivate a certain sense of the absurd and "perversity," as Chris calls it.
		Different as they may be, and they are, Chris and Paul Weitz appreciate the specific weirdness that each brings to their relationship, as brothers and filmmakers.
	www.popmatters.com /film/interviews/weitz-chris-paul.shtml (1313 words)

	Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress
		Susan Kohner (daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar) was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role as a light-skinned black girl in Imitation of Life (1959).
		Dianne Wiest is also the only actress to have received more than one Oscar for work in a single director's films (Woody Allen directed both of her award-winning films).
		In 1985, three black performers were nominated in a combination of lead and supporting roles: Whoopi Goldberg was nominated as Best Actress for The Color Purple (1985), and Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey were nominated as Best Supporting Actress for The Color Purple (1985).
	www.filmsite.org /bestsuppactress.html (1313 words)

	Profiles 5: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
		Sirk's films (many starring Rock Hudson) include: All That Heaven Allows (1955, remade in German in 1974 by Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Magnificent Obsession (1954), Written on the Wind (1956, considered Sirk's best film), and Imitation of Life (1959).
		She retired from films in the 1940s, but has made some screen and TV appearances over the years.
		Rainer was honored at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003 as a former Oscar winner.
	www.germanhollywood.com /alphindx_5.html (2473 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		I saw Imitation of Life, Sirk's last feature, when it came out in 1959 in an all-white theater in northwestern Alabama, surrounded by matrons sobbing over the death of the film's conservative Aunt Jemima figure.
		The pointedly titled Far From Heaven properly, if paradoxically, begins in the autumnal treetops -- as close to heaven as the movie cares to go -- before craning down to Hartford, Connecticut, and environs in the mid-50s, and inevitably concludes 107 minutes later with a crane moving upward toward the first spring blossoms.
		Despite the Toronto buzz, Far From Heaven may not become a hit, even in art theaters (though I've heard it had a strong opening week at the Landmark).
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2002/1102/021122.html (1629 words)

	Imitation of Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imitation of Life is a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst, which was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a black-and-white film in 1934, and a color remake in 1959.
		Hurst, a white woman, was deeply involved in the Harlem Renaissance, and for a time lived with Zora Neale Hurston.
		Directed by John M. Stahl and adapted from Hurst's novel by William Hurlbut, it was released by Universal Pictures on November 26, 1934, and later re-issued in 1936.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imitation_of_Life (1443 words)

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