Imitation of Life

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Actors: Dan O'Herlihy , Troy Donahue , Lana Turner , Juanita Moore , Ann Robinson , John Gavin , Sandra Dee , Susan Kohner , Sandra Gould , David Tomack , John Vivyan , Karin Dicker , Lee Goodman , Terry Burnham , Robert Alda

Director: Douglas Sirk

IMDB Rate: 7.7 out of 10 (4483 votes)

Plot Summary: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, though Annies little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesnt like being black since shes light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mothers heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.