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This 5 page paper describes the 1959 Douglas Sirk film "Imitation of Life." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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earned a place in that stable of slick, somewhat overdone "potboilers" that Hollywood used to churn out in the 1950s and 1960s. These films were drenched in Technicolor and
traded on the audiences emotions for effect, manipulating viewers to get the desired reaction. Still, they sometimes came up with an emotional truth that "grittier", "more realistic" films never
touched. This paper describes such a film, Imitation of Life. Discussion Imitation of Life, in todays terminology, is a "chick flick," an emotional roller-coaster of tangled relationships, lies
and deceit in which there are no high-tech gadgets and nothing blows up. It embodies "all the glitz, glamour, and melodrama of womens films in the post war era"
("Imitation of Life"). The story is about two pairs of mothers and daughters: Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) and her daughter Susie, age 6 (Terry Burnham); and Annie Johnson
(Juanita Moore) and her daughter Sarah Jane, age 8 (Karin Dicker). Lora and Annie meet by accident at Coney Island, where Lora is searching desperately for her 6-year old
Susie; she finds the girl playing with her new friend, Sarah Jane and Sarah Janes mother, Annie. ("Imitation of Life"). As the girls play the women begin to
talk, and Lora says that she wishes she had someone to look after Susie while shes working, auditioning and trying to get her big break ("Imitation of Life"). Annie
says that she would be perfect for the job, but Lora is surprised that shed want to leave her position as Sarah Janes caretaker. Annie says that Sarah Jane
isnt her job but her daughter, and Lora is stunned, because Sarah Jane looks white and Annie is black ("Imitation of Life"). Annie explains that Sarah Jane takes after
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