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Imitation of life [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2023.

DVD IMI 1934 Dra

Mothers and daughters -- Drama.

Passing (Identity) -- Drama.

Racism -- United States -- Drama.

United States -- Race relations -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1167.

9798886070071 :

[videorecording (DVD)].

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Fannie Hurst.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Director, John M. Stahl.

Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Warren William.

It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent emotional power. This first adaptation of Fannie Hurst's best-selling novel boldly confronts the complexities and contradictions of racial identity, economic exploitation, and the limits of the American dream.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968. Imitation of life.

Colbert, Claudette.

Beavers, Louise, 1902-1962.

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