SYNOPSIS: Broadway hopeful and white single mother Lora by chance meets black widow Annie. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Suzie. Suzie fights with Lora over her thirst for fame, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her identity.
#FilmSky #ImitationOfLife
Was that an imitation of catharsis on #ImitationOfLife? #TCMParty
Oh Sarah Jane...you didn't kill your mother. Racism killed your mother. #ImitationOfLife #31DaysOfOscar #TCMParty #OscarsGoBackAgain
Did they deliberately make Susie an emotional infant in the #ImitationOfLife remake? #TCMParty
Meanwhile, in both film adaptations Bea/Lora falls for a man her own age, whereas in the book she's attracted to her business manager, a man eight years her junior, only to realize that while she was working up the nerve to tell him he and her daughter had fallen in love
#ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
Time to remind everyone that as rough as Sarah Jane has it in the 1959 version of #ImitationOfLife, what happens to Peola in the source novel by Fannie Hurst is even worse
#TCMParty
It's a decent melodrama, but Laura is so clueless!
#ImitationOfLife #TCMParty #31DaysOfOscar
One thing I always wonder watching #ImitationOfLife, is Sarah Jane supposed this bad as an entertainer? #SarahJanethesadshowgirl #TCMParty
Wait Sarah Jane is doing Lip Sync Battle? #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
This scene where Lora blithely insults Annie by saying it never occurred to her that Annie had friends. 😠 #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
Oh holy shit the music during the Sarah Jane racial violence scene is just...something else. That should have been rethought.
#TCMParty #ImitationOfLife
"It never occurred to me that you have friends."
Woman, do you ever her the words coming out of your mouth?
#ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
No, sorry, can’t watch Sarah Jane get smacked around. #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty #31DaysOfOscar She’s a terrible little drama queen, but she doesn’t deserve a racist attack.
I like to think it's a meta-commentary on You Know What, like #Gaslight was #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
Politically Correct Beer? #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
There is an alumni group from
Cincinnati's Walnut Hills High School that invests in Broadway shows and has a very long, very good track record and I'm astonished to see #ImitationOfLife reference it! #TCMParty
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/t...
The man on the beach is the nosy checkers shark from #TheStranger 🤯 #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
#ImitationofLife is great as well. #TCMParty
Right, I’m going to stick with #TCM and #ImitationOfLife, though I don’t really like it. Maybe I’ll hit the DVR instead…
BHM 2026 No 8
Imitation of Life- film Black Maid Delilah(Loise Beavers) daughter Peola(Fredi Washington) is able to “pass” for white.
Negotiating the barriers of race came with challenges .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing...
#Blackhistorymonth #Blackhistorymonth2026 #imitationoflife #Blacklives
#nowwatching #ImitationOfLife #LanaTurner An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Mahalia Jackson singing a heart wrenching "Trouble of the World" at your funeral, with the old fashioned hearse and the 4 white horses...
#ImitationOfLife
#Tcmparty
A life of which the audience was unaware, a choice made by the studio/filmmakers. #TCMParty #ImitationOfLife #TwoForOne
The Alex Haley mini-series Queen with Halle Berry was sort of like #ImitationOfLife without the Lana Turner/Claudette Colbert characters. #TCM #TCMParty
The funeral shows that Annie had a whole life outside of work and a community/support network that her daughter rejected
#ImitationOfLife #TwoForOne #TCMParty
Those sunglasses! That lens color was ahead of its time #ImitationOfLife #TCMParty
